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Employee notice period greater than length of service!

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 7 2013

Like many management side labour lawyers, I often advise employers and their human resources professionals on the appropriate amount of notice or

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
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  • Canada
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  • 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

Ambulance service failed in duty to accommodate - manager also personally liable

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 10 2013

The BC Ambulance Service failed in its duty to accommodate a paramedic who could no longer palpate a pulse because of his mulitple sclerosis. The

Don Cherry, the sexes and the Barking Frog

  • McMillan LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 9 2013

Hockey mad Canadians are used to hearing Don "Grapes" Cherry, CBC's soon to be octogenarian hockey analyst, stir the pot with his often provocative

Workplace confidentiality: more about insisting on privacy!

  • Stewart McKelvey
  • -
  • Canada
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  • 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

No means no: including workplace sexual harassment!

  • Stewart McKelvey
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 6 2013

Two decisions addressing sexual harassment were recently released by Adjudicator Ken Bhattacharjee. Both involved some fairly extreme facts. What may

Not constructive dismissal

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 6 2013

A BC employer has successfully defended a claim for constructive dismissal despite taking away supervisory duties and moving the employee from an

Angry confrontation of employee by a manager could be safety issue: OLRB

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 7 2013

In what appears to be a departure from a growing line of cases, the Ontario Labour Relations Board has permitted an employee to advance her claim

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

An aging workforce: the risks associated with succession and transitional planning

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 13 2013

Succession and transitional planning is an important and necessary process in any organization, especially where a significant number of employees