Commentary and perspective on employment law from Todd Humber, HR Law Canada’s editor-in-chief.
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 …
Seven weeks. That’s how long an assistant project manager worked at Colliers Project Leaders before someone in a corner office decided he wasn’t going to make it. The complaints had …
The Ontario Court of Appeal handed down two rulings late last week that will shape labour relations in this country for years to come. Both involved unions challenging back-to-work legislation. …
Somewhere in Austin, Texas, a general manager is having the kind of day that makes you reconsider career choices. He’s the man who looked at a stack of arbitration agreements, …
There’s a certain desperation that sets in when you’ve lost a case and the clock is ticking on your last chance to change the outcome. But when a medical resident …
When Ontario’s Superior Court dismissed a $10.35-million defamation lawsuit against the CBC, it did more than settle a dispute between a broadcaster and a former professor. It reaffirmed something far… …
