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Blogue du secteur du droit du travail et de l'emploi au Canada
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An Eye on Collective Bargaining and the Taxpayer, Part II: Back to School?
27 août 2012
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On March 13, 2012, we took a look the various pressures facing government spending and how deficit/debt cutting could impact broader public sector employees. And the taxpayer, of course. As a refresher, some of the public sector “wage” issues that...
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Record Setting Fines in the Ontario 2009 Metron Christmas Eve OHS Fatalities
22 août 2012
In June 2012 we published a Labour and Employment Communique – Alberta regarding guilty pleas that were entered in two precedent setting occupational health and safety prosecutions arising out of the same tragic incident, which had the potential of record...
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Muddy Waters – Privacy in the Workplace
20 août 2012
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With the rapid rate of technological change, an employee’s expectation of privacy while using employer owned technology is an important issue to be considered. The Alberta Court of Appeal case of Poliquin v. Devon Canada Corporation ruled that the Plaintiff, Mr. Poliquin,...
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Scheming to get rid of a worker costs employer nearly $1 million
9 août 2012
Author: Stuart Rudner A recent decision arising out of a case in Prince George, B.C. has made headlines as the case, decided by a jury, resulted in a damages award of about $809,000. Notably, $573,000 of that award were punitive...
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Owner’s Occupational Health and Safety Obligations
23 juillet 2012
Owners of commercial or residential property that are engaged in a significant construction project may unwittingly assume health and safety obligations. A recent example of this occurred in British Columbia, where former Premier Gordon Campbell was found by the BC...
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A Mathematical Formula for Calculating a Fair and Reasonable Severance Payment
17 juillet 2012
Author: David Rice Thousands of non-union employees are “laid off”, “downsized”, “let go”, “packaged out” or “early retired” each year. While all of them have contracts of employment – written or partly written and partly oral – very few of...
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Union Found to Have Committed Unfair Labour Practice in Organizing Drive
16 juillet 2012
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In a decision released June 25, 2012, the Ontario Labour Relations Board (the “Board”) has found that an organizer from the Labourers’ International Union of North America, Ontario Provincial District Council (“LIUNA”) improperly influenced employees of Graham Bros. Construction Limited...
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Gender Identity and Access to Women’s Washroom Facilities
9 juillet 2012
Author: Erik Marshall In response to a communiqué we recently published, in which we reported that a proposed amendment to the Ontario Human Rights Code (“Ontario Code”) that would see “gender identity” and “gender expression” added to the list of...
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Ontario Court of Appeal Ruling – Mitigation Limitations
4 juillet 2012
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The Court of Appeal’s recent ruling in Bowes v. Goss Power Products Ltd., 2012 ONCA 425, will have significant impact on employers who utilize employment agreements. A five judge panel heard the severance case which addressed an important issue in...
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Class Certification Denied: Brown v. C.I.B.C.
26 juin 2012
Author: Robert Bell In Brown v. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Justice Strathy of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice denied a motion for certification in the most recent proposed overtime class action. Readers will recall that there have been...
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