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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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

AHRC Says Context Needed In Accommodation Case

By Amanda Jacinto

May 15, 2023

In Vashisht v CitiFinancial, 2023 AHRC 44, the Alberta human rights tribunal ruled that CitiFinancial did not discriminate on the...

Categories: Disability | Discrimination | Human Rights

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

Duty to Inquire and CTE Discrimination in Alberta Human Rights

By Michael Hernandez

May 1, 2023

Calkins v Broadview Homes (Alberta) Ltd., 2023 AHRC 45 is a human rights case where symptoms triggered a duty 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