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Porridge on toast and other workplace investigation tales from Saskatchewan

  • Rubin Thomlinson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
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  • May 21 2013

To prepare, Chris and I reviewed a number of interesting workplace investigation cases that have been decided in Saskatchewan, but have principles

Mind games: distinguishing between mood problems and mental disorders when disciplining employees

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 15 2013

It is trite law that employers cannot discriminate against employees based on mental disabilities. The broad interpretation that courts and

Workplace confidentiality: more about insisting on privacy!

  • Stewart McKelvey
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 8 2013

The common law privacy right, or the tort of intrusion upon seclusion, arrived in Canada with Jones v. Tsige. That case arose when a bank employee

Should Competition Act claims be arbitrable? A case comment on Murphy v. Amway

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • April 30 2013

In the recent decision of Murphy v. Amway, the Federal Court of Appeal upheld the lower court's determination that claims under the Competition Act

Bad-faith work refusal complaint to MOL justified discipline reinstatement denied

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 30 2013

The work refusal provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act should not be abused, an arbitrator has effectively held in overturning an

Arbitrator upholds cause termination of 37-year employee due to safety violations

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 25 2013

In the context of labour arbitrations, long service has often been a factor invoked by arbitrators to mitigate against serious disciplinary

Appropriate for board to rely on offences committed twenty years earlier

  • Miller Thomson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 25 2013

The Grievor, a bus drivercustodian, pleaded guilty to sexual offences involving minors some twenty years earlier and was convicted. The events

Safety violations get 37-year employee fired for cause

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 12 2013

We don't often hear of 37-year employees being fired for just cause. An arbitrator has recently upheld the dismissal of a long-service unionized

No class action this time: federal Court of Appeal upholds arbitration agreement

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 9 2013

The complicated interplay between holding parties to an arbitration agreement and upholding the purpose and intent of legislation concerned with

A clause for concern? Arbitration clauses and third-party IP claims

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 4 2013

The Supreme Court of British Columbia recently considered a dispute over a software agreement where a licensor refused to indemnify a licensee for