Subsequent to obtaining a license to practice veterinary medicine, Dr. Stephanie Rhebergen entered into a 3 year Associate Agreement with Creston Veterinary Clinic.

On April 3, 2013, Lesley Cabott commenced employment with Urban Systems Ltd. and was tasked with working out of the company's new Whitehorse office.

Shahram Younesi knew something was not right when he walked into a meeting and his managers were standing up. They proceeded to terminate his employment after just two months of work.

In a recent B.C. case, Mission Hill Winery v. Service Employees International Union Local 2, Branch 300 (Crozier Grievance), [2019] B.C.C.A.A.A. No. 130 (Glass), Arbitrator Nicholas Glass

The Supreme Court of Canada began 2015 by tipping the scales of workplace associational freedom under section 2(d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms towards workers.

In United Steelworkers Local 7552 v. Agrium Vanscoy Potash Operations (Grievance 16-10, Random Drug Searches/Interviews), [2015] S.L.A.A. No. 1 (Norman), a Saskatchewan employer's practice...

Steve Steinebach was employed by Clean Energy Compression Corp. as a salesperson. He had around 19 and a half years of service.

In a unanimous decision released Sept 28, 2017, the Alberta Court of Appeal ("ABCA") upheld a judicial review decision which found that the majority of a grievance arbitration panel...

It's time for the second instalment in our three-part series on employment law lessons learned from watching Netflix's Selling Sunset. As always, there are spoilers ahead, so proceed with caution.

Remote workers are able to connect with the office and one another using various instant messaging platforms.

In Vancouver (City) Fire and Rescue Services v. Vancouver Firefighters' Union, [2022] B.C.C.A.A.A. No. 85 (Saunders)...

Imagine you are on a nice sunny beach, feeling the warm ocean breeze on your face, and listening to the soothing sound of … an Outlook e-mail notification!?!?

An Ontario court recently awarded a dismissed employee wrongful dismissal damages in spite of findings to the effect that the high-level employee had persistently failed to satisfy the employer's reasonable performance standards.

Drug and alcohol testing has become both more common, and more accepted, in safety sensitive workplaces.

On September 27, 2022, the BC Supreme Court released its decision in Parmar v. Tribe Management Inc., 2022 BCSC 1675 ("Parmar"). This is the first time the BC Supreme Court has directly...

In the past few weeks, arbitrators have begun to issue decisions considering the reasonableness of COVID-19 vaccination policies in unionized workplaces.

In Re Black Press Group Ltd., BC EST No. RD074/17, the B.C. Employment Standards Tribunal confirmed that evidence of after-acquired cause (i.e. evidence of pre-dismissal misconduct...

All of these changes have meant quite a lot of new work for employers as they sought to comply with the new rules.

The B.C. Court of Appeal recently considered the extent of a dismissed employee's obligation to accept re-employment with the same employer in order to satisfy the duty to mitigate damages flowing out of termination of employment.

In Timmins v. Artisan Cells, 2024 ONSC 7123, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice issued a substantial damages award – an award in the amount of $456,908.82 – in favour of the plaintiff, Nicholas Timmins.