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

Manager Vendetta = No Just Cause And Increased Notice Period

By Joel Fairbrother

March 21, 2022

In Baker v Weyerhaeuser, 2022 ABCA 83, the Alberta Court of Appeal found no just cause and increased notice period...

Categories: Just Cause | Severance | Workplace Investigations

Just Cause For Employee With Angry and Rude Outburst

By Joel Fairbrother

January 19, 2022

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal upheld a just cause termination for an employee who had an angry and rude outburst...

Categories: Employment Law | Just Cause | Wrongful Dismissal

Just Cause for Dismissal Found for Recycling Scavenger

By Joel Fairbrother

January 12, 2022

Just cause for termination found respecting an Alberta employee who scavenged bottles and then ignored a direction to properly get...

Categories: Just Cause | Labour

3 Months Severance and $10k Damages for 17 Year Old Dishwasher

By Joel Fairbrother

December 21, 2021

Bass v Boston Pizza, 2021 ABPC 315 is a new Alberta decision where the employer's just cause argument failed and...

Categories: Just Cause | Severance | Wrongful Dismissal

Rude Texts Used to Find After-Acquired Just Cause

By Joel Fairbrother

December 7, 2021

Golob v Fort St. John is a BC case where a court found just cause for termination in part due...

Categories: Just Cause | Workplace Investigations

The Matthews Hammer Swings Again: Termination Clause Ignored

By Joel Fairbrother

October 12, 2021

Humphrey v Mene is a new Ontario case where a termination clause was invalidated in part because of an employer...

Categories: Employment Contracts | Good Faith | Just Cause