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Resignation as a bargaining weapon a double-edged sword

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 16 2013

Threatening to resign, when used by an employee to bargain for better working conditions, is a weapon that cuts both ways. A tactic of this sort

Notice of resignation: will employers still be notified before an employee leaves?

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 14 2013

In a recent decision, the Quebec Court of Appeal ruled for the first time that an employer can waive the notice given by an employee who resigns

Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube and personal email accounts.how far can an employer go when it comes to using their contents as evidence against an employee?

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 7 2013

With the proliferation of social media, employers are more and more tempted to resort to their employees' personal accounts so as to obtain valuable

Supreme Court of Canada focuses attention on the collective and individual aspects of Aboriginal and treaty rights

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 17 2013

The forestry company Moulton Contracting obtained licences from the British Columbia government to harvest timber on two tracts of land in the

Psychological harassment complaints when the investigator gets sued

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 8 2013

In a recent judgment by the Court of Québec which may raise a few eyebrows, an investigator hired by an employer to inquire into psychological

Workplace investigations

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 28 2012

An employer’s decision to respond to an employee complaint with a fair, thorough, and well-conducted workplace investigation is critical in ensuring that any decision made with respect to that complaint is well reasoned and justifiable

USTR slams Canada over the treatment of pharmaceutical patents

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 6 2013

On May 1, 2013, the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) released its annual IP report for 2013. Canada has been placed on the “Watch List"

Tort of inducing breach of contract the criteria for intent

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Australia, Canada
  • -
  • September 20 2010

A recent Canadian decision by the New Brunswick Court of Appeal in SAR Petroleum et al v Peace Hills Trust Company 2010 NBCA 22 held that the tort of inducing breach of contract (or interfering with contractual relations) only arises if the breach was the desired end or means to an end

Markson v. MBNA Bank: the Ontario Court of Appeal broadens the scope of aggregate assessment in class proceedings

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • September 17 2007

The Ontario Court of Appeal recently released its decision in Markson v. MBNA Canada Bank

$150-million lawsuit against university dismissed as abuse of process

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • April 19 2013

On April 11, 2013, the Ontario Superior Court dismissed a $150-million claim for damages by three former medical residents against the University