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SCC to hear random alcohol testing case
- McLennan Ross LLP
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- Canada
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- March 23 2012
On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Canada announced that it will hear the trade union appeal of the Irving Pulp and Paper case, which concerned random alcohol testing at a kraft pulp mill in New Brunswick
A caution about exposure to “reasonable notice of termination”
- McLennan Ross LLP
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- Canada
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- August 9 2011
Many employers are surprised to hear our estimates of what “reasonable notice of termination of employment” is for employees
Absenteeism statistics stimulate debate
- McLennan Ross LLP
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- Canada
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- June 7 2011
Statistics Canada's Work Absence Rates survey results for 2010 were released in May
“Reasonable notice” required both ways
- McLennan Ross LLP
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- Canada
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- April 23 2012
The Ontario Court of Appeal recently upheld a judgment awarding over $20 million in favour of an employer against four former employees who quit in unison on two weeks’ notice
Direct service providers: a caution
- McLennan Ross LLP
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- Canada
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- May 9 2012
We continue to see a common use of “direct service providers” and other similar contractor arrangements
More support for random testing
- McLennan Ross LLP
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- Canada
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- July 22 2011
This week, in the latest case on drugalcohol testing, the New Brunswick Court of Appeal issued a decision upholding random alcohol testing at an Irving Oil refinery
Postal workers must pay for unlawful strike
- McLennan Ross LLP
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- Canada
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- February 2 2011
On Monday, an arbitrator awarded Canada Post Corporation damages of approximately $50,000 for an illegal strike by letter carriers that occurred in 2008, first in Edmonton, then in Grande Prairie, and later in Fort McMurray
Supreme Court narrows the constitutional protection of collective bargaining
- McLennan Ross LLP
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- Canada
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- May 2 2011
On Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") issued its long-awaited decision in the Fraser appeal, and 8 of the 9 judges seemed to have no difficulty concluding that the Ontario Court of Appeal was wrong
Employer generosity remains unbinding
- McLennan Ross LLP
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- Canada
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- April 29 2011
Employers often do things that are, either accidentally or deliberately, more generous than what a collective agreement requires them to do
Minimum wage increases in Alberta
- McLennan Ross LLP
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- Canada
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- August 29 2011
Effective September 1, the statutory minimum wage will be increasing in Alberta
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- Author - Hugh J.D. McPhail, Q.C.