Employment Law Blog

As part of Bow River Law LLP‘s commitment to legal excellence, we are often doing research and updating our knowledge in the law. In service of the public and profession, we then write legal blogs and news articles and post them here for your perusal.

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Latest Employment Law News Articles & Research

**Untangling the Impact of Horrocks on Human Rights Law In Alberta**

By Joel Fairbrother

May 30, 2023

This article aims to untangle the jurisdictional web of Horrocks in Alberta as considered by the AHRC and the Courts...

Categories: Discrimination | Human Rights | Labour

Alberta Recognizes New Tort of Harassment!

By Joel Fairbrother

May 28, 2023

AHS v Johnston, 2023 ABKB 209 (Feasby) recognizes a new tort of Harassment in Alberta, which could be used in...

Categories: Employment Law | Harassment

ACJ Case Illustrates the Cost of Being Rude

By Joel Fairbrother

May 22, 2023

Lutz v Fabian Seeds Farms, 2023 ABCJ 109 is an Alberta case where an employee and employer learned that being...

Categories: Employment Contracts | Employment Law

ABKB Gives AHRC Direction On Screening And Credibility

By Joel Fairbrother

May 7, 2023

In Shodunke v Alberta (Human Rights Commission), 2023 ABKB 260, the Court defined the limits on the AHRC's ability to...

Categories: Discrimination | Human Rights

AHRC Resists Adding Employees As Respondents

By Joel Fairbrother

April 20, 2023

In Reed v CNRL, 2023 AHRC 43, the Alberta human rights complainant attempted to bring her claim against her manager...

Categories: Discrimination | Human Rights

Paramedics Warned For Slow Response Win Grievance

By Joel Fairbrother

April 11, 2023

In AHS v HSAA, 2023 Canlii 21614 (Lehmond and Middleton), two paramedics were given written warnings for a response time....

Categories: Just Cause | Labour | Workplace Investigations