In Benjamin v. Cascades Canada ULC, 2017 ONSC 2583, the plaintiff had worked as an unskilled labourer with the defendant company for 28 years.

Corporation of the Township of Langley -and- Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 403, BCLRB No. B117/2017 (leave for reconsideration denied in No. B151/2017) is part of a series of decisions...

A recent BC Supreme Court decision, Thoma v. Schaefer Elevator Components Inc., 2019 BCSC 100, reviewed the impact of a written employment agreement and the employer's past practice of applying it.

For years, governments have struggled to allow the voluntary resolution of collective bargaining disputes while at the same time protecting the public interest.

Sadly, it is far too common that we hear of news headlines involving professional athletes charged or convicted of assaulting their partners or spouses...

In BC Hydro & Power Authority and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 258 (August 4, 2015) Arbitrator Moore considered the Employer's application to call rebuttal evidence.

Public Service Labour Relations and Employment Board's (the "Board") decision that refusing an employee's request to telework fulltime so that she could continue to breastfeed her child was not discriminatory.

In Jardine v. Costco Wholesale Canada, 2014 BCHRT 214, the employer was able to accommodate an employee, while holding its ground on certain requests from the employee.

A federal election will be held on Monday, October 19, 2015.

On October 28, my colleague Alissa Demerse and I presented on a very important topic in today's climate: Gender Identity and Expression. In this webinar, we provided an overview of the topic, reviewed a number of key cases and outlined "do's and do not's" for employers.

There are sound labour relations policy reasons for having a strong time limit provision in a collective agreement.

Arbitrator Ken Saunders' recent decision in Lafarge Canada Inc. v. Teamsters, Local Union No. 213 (In-Cab Camera Grievance), [2018] B.C.C.A.A.A. No. 51 (Saunders) is instructive.

The past few years have seen a wave of Canadian court awards involving significant reasonable notice periods for short service employees, and the recent B.C. case of Greenlees v. Starline Windows Ltd

Terminating the employment of a senior executive can be expensive business.

Across North America, attitudes towards marijuana use, both recreational and medical, are changing quickly.

Employers often enter into written employment contracts with employees in an effort to define and minimize liability for notice and severance obligations on termination without cause.

It's surprising that the question in the title of this article even needs to be asked. However, in the case of Colistro v. Tbaytel, 2019 ONCA 197 the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a lower court

How do you convince a client that wants to defend a wrongful dismissal claim of the fact that its claim of just cause for termination is devoid of legal merit?

In its decision in Kadler v. West Fraser Mills Ltd., 2026 ABCJ 28, the Alberta Court of Justice discussed the reciprocal obligations held by workplace parties when an employee is absent from work.

Workers' compensation is a no-fault insurance system for injuries arising out of and in the course of a worker's employment.