In Paquette c Quadraspec Inc., 2014 ONCS 2431, the Court held that the employer's global payroll was to be considered in determining whether the obligation to provide severance pay was triggered.

In Direct Energy Marketing Limited and Unifor, Local 975, 2014 CanLII 657, an arbitrator refused to depart from a prior arbitral award despite his preference for a contrary line of authority.

In AUPE v Alberta, 2014 ABCA 43, the Alberta Court held that the essential character of a dispute between the parties was beyond the jurisdiction of a grievance arbitration board where it involved the constitutional validity of s 12(1) of Public Service Employee Relations Act.

The Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal allowed an appeal from denial of a nurse's claim arising from some 12 years of verbal abuse from a doctor with whom she worked.

In Telus Communications Inc. v. Telecommunications Workers’ Union, the court upheld the termination of a grievor.

To date, the Supreme Court of Canada has not recognized a constitutionally protected right to strike a right.

An Alberta court enjoined the operation of the Public Service Salary Restraint Act that would have imposed the 2011 collective agreement on the members of the Crown bargaining unit for a four year term.

The lower court found that the covenant was in restraint of trade, ambiguous and unenforceable.

Federal regulations permit access to marijuana for medical purposes, and the use of marijuana can become a complicated issue in the workplace.

The British Columbia Supreme Court has dismissed a legal challenge to decisions of the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) to grant successive, short-term approvals to EnCana Corporation to withdraw fresh water from B.C.'s lakes, rivers and streams for use in hydraulic fracturing operations.

Yesterday the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Corps of Engineers released a pre-publication, final version of a new rule defining the scope of "waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act.

Legislation to prohibit "pay-to-pay" practices by banks has not yet been drafted. Therefore, at this point, we do not know exactly what will be prohibited.

In early December 2014, an outbreak of H5N2 strain of avian influenza was found in BC.

The Court accepted that where Parliament has comprehensively legislated in a particular area, as it has in respect to patents, it was reasonable to infer that it did not intend recovery to extend beyond those embodied in the regime.

Pour conclure la série de billets sur l'affaire des claviers brevetés par Blackberry, et les accusations de contrefaçon ICI, un règlement a été annoncé.

Déjà commenté çà et là : le projet de loi C-43, annoncé il y a quelques jours, mènera à d’importants changements à la Loi sur les brevets.

L'auteure commente cette décision de la Cour d'appel qui porte sur les articles 54.1 et suivants du Code de procédure civile, relatifs au pouvoir de sanctionner les abus de procédure.

The Government of Ontario announced on June 10 that it intends to introduce amendments to the province's Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) that, if passed, would strengthen privacy rules...

The Canadian federal government announced two new tax measures to support the Canadian mining industry on March 1, 2015.

The US District Court of Maryland's recent decision concerning Aegis Mobile, LLC signals a major development in cross-border regulatory enforcement and cooperation between Canada and the United States.