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Administrative
- Discipline Imposed On Mayor Overturned As Unreasonable
- That Ain’t Fair – ABCA on Fair Disclosure for Post Secondary Discipline
- Professional Discipline – ABCA Case on Penalty and Evidence Standards
- ABCA Slaps Down Another Professional Discipline Costs Order
- Hard Patient Doesn’t Excuse Unprofessional Conduct of LPN
- Charter Challenges not Enough to Stop University Vaccine Policy
- Respect the Judge! Alberta College of Paramedics Punishes Member
- Professional Accountant Fined for Unprofessional Conduct
- Professor Seeks Judicial Review Over Denial of Promotion
Constructive Dismissal
- 24 Months Severance + Big Extra Payment for Farm Manager
- Bow River Law’s Top 3 Videos About Constructive Dismissal
- “Temporary” Pay Cut of $7 = Constructive Dismissal
- A Guide to Employment Lawyer Consultation in Calgary, Alberta
- Workplace Gaslighting and Employment Law in Alberta
- ABKB Rejects Argument that Credibility Prevents Summary Trial
- Employment Contract Guide by Award-Winning Calgary Workplace Law Firm
- Racist Comments In Team Meeting Not Poisoned Workplace
- ABCJ rules Employer’s Vax Policy Reasonable and Justifiable
- Constructive Dismissal in Alberta: The Ultimate Guide
- Not Inviting Employee To Return After COVID Leave = Constructive Dismissal
- NSCA Case On Reasonable Notice For Seasonal Workers
- ABKB Gives Guidance on Layoff, Termination, Mitigation and Bias
- EE Constructively Dismissed, Didn’t Resign, No Just Cause
- Mega Damages in Constructive Dismissal Case Involving Violence
- Can I Record That? Admissibility of Recordings in Employment Cases
- ABPC: Business Sale, Dismissal and Non-Solicit All In One Case!
- Old Evidence Not Barred By Limitations In Constructive Dismissal
- Employee Refusing Mask Put on Leave = Not Constructive Dismissal
- Short Time To Decide On Constructive Dismissal: ABCA
- Employees Injured By Vaccination Have Options for Govt Support!
- Resignation or Constructive Dismissal? Anton Pillar Overturned
- Constructive Dismissal + Defamation! Thibert Case
- COVID Layoff Still Constructive Dismissal? – Ristanovic Case
- Breaking the Fixed Term! New Koutsikaloudis Case In Alberta
- Constructive Dismissal Strikes Again! Kosteckyj A Win for Employees (Mostly)
Consultation
COVID-19
- Alberta Human Rights: Vaccination Policy Found Reasonable
- Union Settlement Bars Employee Discrimination Action
- Employer Fails to Prove Just Cause after Firing Employee Over Mask Violations
- Religion Successfully Used for Employee’s COVID-19 Vax Refusal
- COVID Economic Downturn Not Frustration of Employment Contract
- OPG v PWU: Employer to Pay Cost of COVID-19 Rapid Tests
- UFCW v Paragon: Employer’s Mandatory Vax Policy Upheld
Defamation
Disability
- Case Illustrates Discoverability Does Not Apply In Alberta Human Rights
- Firing Related to Disability, But No Discrimination Liability Found
- AHRC Says Context Needed In Accommodation Case
- AHRC Case: Mistrust Over Health Benefits, But No Perception of Disability
- Another $30k General Damages Award in Alberta Human Rights
- Alberta Skip Driver Wins Discrimination Claim Against Restaurant
- Old Evidence of Miscarriage Allowed to Establish Disability In Alberta
- WCB Drops the Ball In Zarooben Case
Discrimination
- Employer Not Required to Provide Part-Time Work on Maternity Leave
- Human Rights Claim Dismissed For Refusing An Offer
- Alberta Human Rights – $40,000 General Damages + 50% Lost Wages
- Major Alberta Human Rights Costs Award for Hearing Misconduct
- The Human Rights Price Tag of Pepper Spray Discrimination
- Employers Unlikely to Get Costs In Alberta Human Rights
- A Guide to Human Rights Law and Workplace Discrimination in Alberta
- Accommodation For An Alberta Human Rights Hearing
- New Biggest Human Rights Damages Case in Alberta
- Alberta Human Rights – Higher Accommodation Standard?
- AHRC Guidance On Screening Function and Post-Complaint Conduct
- Pregnancy Discrimination in Alberta Workplaces: A Guide
- AHRC Says Shop Talk Banter Not Always Discrimination
- Unconscious Racial Bias Found In Alberta Police Case
- AHRC Case Illustrates Value of Corroborating Evidence
- Union Application for Anonymization of Witnesses in AHRC Fails
- School (Still) Tied Up In Discrimination Web: ABCA
- Untangling the Impact of Horrocks on Human Rights Law In Alberta
- ABKB Gives AHRC Direction On Screening And Credibility
- Duty to Inquire and CTE Discrimination in Alberta Human Rights
- AHRC Resists Adding Employees As Respondents
- Discrimination Pizza With a Side of Employment Standards
- It Takes Two… To Accommodate
- AHRC Strict on 30-day Reconsideration Time Limit
- Sexual Harassment Claim Denied Based On Credibility
- AHRC Decision Shows Its Hard For Employer to Get Costs Award
- Eggs With A Side of Discrimination
- Highest AHRT Award for Pain and Suffering?
- AHRT: Employer Requiring Medical Docs for RTW Not Discrimination
- Complainant’s Death and Lack of Affidavit Didn’t Prevent AHRC Victory
- Triple Hearsay Not Reliable Enough in Alberta Human Rights
- Employment Stds Decision Won’t Always Prevent Going to Human Rights
- $50k in General Damages for Sexual Harassment in Alberta
- Shift Change and Lay-Off Discrimination in Alberta
- Verbal Human Rights Settlement Agreement Upheld
- Discriminatory Employment Termination of Alcoholic in Alberta
- Employer Discriminates Regarding Gender Pronouns
- The Human Rights Accommodation Two-Way Street
- Defective Release Found to Prevent Human Rights Complaint
- Employers Do Not Always Have to Inquire About Mental Disability
- Horrocks (SCC) Case: Alberta Human Rights Game Changer?
- Absenteeism Termination Found To Be Discrimination
- Employer Discriminated Despite Not Knowing About Pregnancy
- Dismissal Due to Budget Cuts Can Still Be Discrimination
- “Shop Talk” Not An Excuse: Sexual Harassment Found
- Injured Worker Harassed, then Fired: $25k in Human Rights Damages
- Court Agrees: School Tangled up in Discrimination Web
- Daigle Appeal Rejects Johnstone / Clarifies Family Status Discrimination
Duty of Fair Representation
- Building Trades of Alberta Fails to Get Intervenor Status in DFR
- Successful DFR Case Explains Union Obligations in Alberta
- Union Didn’t Realize Employee Fired = Breach of DFR
Employment Contracts
- Restrictive Covenant Not Enforced Against Consultants
- Non-Comp Injunction Application Re Former Shareholder Denied
- Case Shows Why Employers Should Record Hours Worked
- Streamlined Trials Only Where No Other Way to Achieve Fair and Just Result?
- No Consideration Kills a Restrictive Covenant
- No Fixed Term + Low Notice Period for this Alberta Employee
- Drug Test Policy Upheld As Reasonable Re Cannabis = Just Cause
- Unreasonable Employer Actions Violate Alberta Employee Rights
- Cant Have Your Employment Contract Cake and Eat it Too
- Is Dufault the New Waksdale? Ontario Court Strikes Termination Clause
- ABCJ Ignores Probation Clause Where Employer Did No Review
- New Alberta “Resignation” Wrongful Dismissal Case
- Plotnikoff Re-Affirms Key Employment Law Principles in Alberta
- I’ll Avoid Your Employees If You Avoid Mine
- Premium Rate Hours Don’t Trigger Overtime: Grievance
- ACJ Case Illustrates the Cost of Being Rude
- Alberta Overtime Case With Big Implications In Employment Law
- Verbal Contract of 5 Yr Term Chosen Over Later Written Term
- Alberta ESC Appeal Confirms Continuous Employment In Asset Sale
- Wrongful Dismissal Results in Employer Paying Over $1M in LTD
- Labour Board Clarifies Who Qualifies as Supervisory for OT Exemption
- Contractual Interpretation and Employment Stds – Banked OT Case
- Employee Wins Despite Corporate Shell Game
- Alberta Employment Contract Failed to Limit Reasonable Notice
- Labour Board Says Employer Improperly Deducted Training Costs
- Self-employed or Employee? It Depends Who’s Asking and Why
- Size of Employer A Factor In Interpreting Employment Contract?
- Fixed-Term Fiasco: Rice v Shell (ABCA)
- The Matthews Hammer Swings Again: Termination Clause Ignored
- Employment Contracts Under Attack!: Waksdale v Swegon North America is Stirring things Up
Employment Law
- Disciplinary Action Complaint Found For Alleged Resignation
- ESC Decision Causes Issue Estoppel In Alberta Human Rights
- Objectively Serious Misconduct Not Enough For Just Cause?
- Another Streamlined Trial Application Shut Down
- No Injunction For Soliciting Employees and Bidding on Prior Opportunity
- Taking A New Job Elsewhere Is Not Necessarily Resignation
- Alberta Court Rejects Non-Solicitation Injunction Application
- Alberta’s First Successful Application for Streamlined Trial
- Alberta’s First Application for Streamlined Trial Fails
- Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Penalties Found Reasonable
- Is Holding A Beer Serious Enough Misconduct For Just Cause?
- More Alberta Pushback on McAllister Costs
- ABKB Unreported – No Failure to Mitigate
- Sleeping is Working Under the Alberta ESC
- Alberta Release of Human Rights Upheld on Judicial Review
- Employment Dismissal: The High Price of Being Not Nice
- Employee Records Employer and Co-Workers For Ten Years = Just Cause
- Dishonest Employee Hammered With Huge Judgment In Favor of Employer
- OH&S Alberta Protections For Employees Reporting Harassment
- Staffing Agency Paid Construction Employee Wrong Vacation Pay
- ABKB Case Says McAllister Does Not Mean No Schedule C
- ESC Consequences Of Breaching Job Protected Leave
- Alberta Recognizes New Tort of Harassment!
- Employer Fails in Attempt to “Change Horses” To Just Cause
- ABCA Says CERB Not Deductible From Severance!
- ONCA Provides Guidance on Duty to Mitigate In Wrongful Dismissal
- Parallel Claims: Human Rights and Civil Claim at the Same Time?
- 26 Month Reasonable Notice (Severance) Upheld In Currie Appeal
- Employer Not Allowed to Play Dumb on Resignation
- Tools and Materials Instead of Cash for Severance?
- Just Cause For Employee With Angry and Rude Outburst
Employment Standards
- Insubordination + Insolence = Still Not Just Cause For Dismissal
- Just Cause Today Might Not Be Just Cause Tomorrow
- Who Do You Work For? The One With The Money!
Fiduciary Obligation
- Non-Solicitation and Other Breaches in Alberta Employment Law Case
- Injunction Application Fails – No Evidence of Continuing Breach
Good Faith
- $5k In Costs Awarded in Human Rights for Poor Litigation Conduct
- “Thin Skull” Aggravated Damages in Wrongful Dismissal?
- Employers Beware of Alleging Just Cause! The Ojanen case
- Employers Under Attack! Matthews v Ocean (SCC): The Most Significant Employment Law Decision in a Decade?
Harassment
- Sexual Assault Grievance Timelines Not Always Extended in Alberta
- Any Sexual Assault Very Serious- Dupont Case Overturned
- Sexual Harassment and Just Cause – The Dupont Case
Human Rights
- Female RT Sexually Harassed and Was Racist = Just Cause
- Human Rights Alberta- Kvaska case – Alcoholism and Human Rights Accommodation at Work
Incentive Pay
- Gender (Female) A Factor In Big Alberta Severance Award
- 24 Months Severance + Discretionary Bonus Awarded
Independent Contractors
Just Cause
- Single Sexist Comment Is Not Just Cause
- Employee Beaten Up Then Interrogated = No Just Cause
- Big Alberta Summary Judgment Despite Just Cause Defense
- Bus Driver Teaches Passengers Lesson and Gets Fired
- Paramedics Warned For Slow Response Win Grievance
- Employer Making Up Misconduct Backfires Stupendously
- No Just Cause Despite Touching Bum and Torso and Not Admitting It
- Alberta Post Incident Drug Test Unreasonable Invasion of Employee Privacy
- Manager Vendetta = No Just Cause And Increased Notice Period
- Just Cause for Dismissal Found for Recycling Scavenger
- 3 Months Severance and $10k Damages for 17 Year Old Dishwasher
- Rude Texts Used to Find After-Acquired Just Cause
- Uplifting Just Cause Case – GiVogue
- Employees Under Attack! Jegou Helps Employers with Just Cause
- Just Cause Under Attack! Haack v Secure Energy (Drilling Services) Inc Making It Harder for Employers to Get to Just Cause
Labour
- ALRB Finds Management Did Not Taint Union Revocation Application
- I Know What You Did… Over Your Lunch Break
Lay-Off
Non-Competition
Non-Solicitation
OH&S
Pregnancy Discrimination
Professional Regulation
- Acupuncturist Disciplined by Profession for Conflict of Interest
- Nurse Too Rough = Unprofessional Conduct
- Major Penalty for Nurse Re: Improper Pain Meds Charting, Etc.
- Professional Sanctions – CARNA (Mehra #77883) Decision May 4, 2021
Severance
- Expert Evidence Not Required for Mental Distress Damages?
- Another 24 Month Severance Award In Alberta
- Cracking the Severance Cap! New 26-Month Termination Notice Period Case
Unjust Dismissal
Workplace Investigations
Wrongful Dismissal