In Benke v. Loblaw Companies Limited, 2022 ABQB 461, the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench, handed down July 5, 2022, ruled that a former employee, the plaintiff, who had a received work absence certificate from his doctor to the effect that he was unable to wear face...
In Bank of Montreal v. Li, 2020 CAF 22, the Federal Court of Appeal refused the Bank’s argument that a signed release barred access to the unjust dismissal provisions of the Canada Labour Code 34 The facts of National Bank are quite similar to the facts in the present...
Shalagin v Mercer Celgar Limited Partnership, 2022 BCSC 112 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/jlzsw>, retrieved on 2022-02-01 (Justice Branch) On the plaintiff side, the issue of surreptitious recordings comes up often. In support of their grievances or...
In a recent decision by the Alberta Court of Appeal, United Nurses of Alberta v Alberta Health Services, 2021 ABCA 194 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/jg2fl>, retrieved on 2022-01-31, the Court addressed the threshold test for discrimination in a family...
Northern Regional Health Authority v. Horrocks, 2021 SCC 42 (CanLII): Part of the Court’s (the majority) wrongheaded reasoning is the reliance on the so-called duty of fair representation to mitigate the limitations on individual human rights: “[36] ...
In the matter of an Unjust Dismissal Complaint Under Part III of the Canada Labour Code, R.S.C. 1985, c. L-2 BETWEEN EILEEN P. JOSEPH COMPLAINANT AND GITKSAN LOCAL SERVICES SOCIETY RESPONDENT ADJUDICATOR: Ib S. Petersen FILE...
