Commentary and perspective on employment law from Todd Humber, HR Law Canada’s editor-in-chief.
The employee found a new job about 14 weeks after Stingray Group fired him. In wrongful dismissal terms, that is a model outcome. A dismissed employee is supposed to go …
A labour arbitrator’s award was thrown out in Quebec. A self-represented applicant’s submissions were set aside entirely at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. And the B.C. Court of Appeal …
In June 2024, a worker at a lumber mill on Annacis Island in Delta, B.C., asked for three days of paid bereavement leave. His wife had delivered a stillborn daughter …
Foreign service officers posted abroad depend entirely on their employer’s health plan. There’s no back-up option, no provincial coverage to fall back on when the paperwork stalls. So when Ottawa …
Bailey is a dog. She boarded at an Ontario kennel in 2019, missed a dose of pre-surgery medication, and ended up deciding a human rights case. The kennel’s operations manager …
Nearly every management-side employment lawyer I’ve spoken to says roughly the same thing about employment contracts: consistency is the whole point. One template, applied evenly, defensible in front … Free …
The truck driver was right about one thing. His time sheets were altered. He told the Ontario Labour Relations Board that he filled out his hours as a local driver, …
The insurance producer’s manager knew what to say. When she told him, in August 2021, that a client’s representative had taken to following her car home along the highway, he …
She asked for a hearing where she could speak, because writing was the problem. The worker in this British Columbia case lived with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), autism and …
The Alberta Husky gas station case will not make headlines outside the niche world of employment law. It involves a retail sales supervisor, a small chain of stations around Edmonton, and a …
