HR Law Canada

A worker who refused her employer’s directive to return to the office at least one day per week has been denied Employment Insurance benefits after the Social Security Tribunal of …

An Alberta worker terminated for stealing copper pipe worth $180 remains entitled to temporary total disability benefits because the theft did not meet the legal threshold for “egregious conduct,” the… …

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has denied a hotel worker’s request to amend her seven-year-old discrimination application to add new reprisal allegations and name her union as a respondent, …

A Nova Scotia small claims court has upheld the termination of a long-term Sobeys employee who repeatedly used racial and homophobic slurs in the workplace, finding the conduct constituted wilful… …

An independent human rights board of inquiry will begin hearing a discrimination case against Irving Shipbuilding Inc. on Feb. 3 in Halifax. David Ladouceur alleges the company discriminated against h… …

An Alberta sessional lecturer’s duty of fair representation complaint was dismissed as an abuse of process after she filed grievances over issues the labour board had already ruled on, the …

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has dismissed a discrimination complaint from a job applicant who was rejected for three positions with Rogers Blue Jays Baseball Partnership, finding one allegati… …

A British Columbia tribunal has ordered a student newspaper to pay $2,100 in notice damages to a managing editor it terminated without cause, finding the worker was a dependent contractor …

An Alberta court has dismissed an employer’s appeal to strike out a wrongful dismissal lawsuit, ruling that briefly overlapping court filings did not constitute an abuse of process. The Court …

The Ontario Labour Relations Board has ordered a company to pay a former dispatcher more than $185,000 after finding he was owed substantial overtime and was terminated in reprisal for… …