A former material handler for CDMV who transferred from Ontario to Alberta weeks before resigning cannot pursue termination and severance pay claims under Ontario’s Employment Standards Act, 2000, the… Free …
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The Court of King’s Bench of Alberta has cited two podcasters in criminal contempt for what it found was a baseless campaign of harassment against a plaintiff suing the provincial …
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Arbitration/Labour RelationsJust CauseSubscriber ContentWorkplace Violence
PREMIUM Wood Buffalo paramedic fired after pushing colleague into a fridge door loses grievance
An advanced care paramedic firefighter who was fired after a confrontation with a co-worker during a shift change has lost his bid to get his job back, after an Alberta… …
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FeaturedSexual Harassment
Department of National Defence ordered to pay $20,000 for gender harassment
A family peer support coordinator with the Department of National Defence has been awarded $20,000 after the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board found her supervisor harassed h… …
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Alberta appeal court revives gross mismanagement finding, shields whistleblowers
The Alberta Court of Appeal has reinstated a Public Interest Commissioner of Alberta report that found a former school superintendent committed gross mismanagement, overturning a lower court ruling th… Free …
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Subscriber ContentWrongful Dismissal
PREMIUM Podcasters lose bid to lift orders over witness-intimidation campaign in high profile wrongful dismissal fight in Alberta
The Court of King’s Bench of Alberta has refused to set aside ex parte restraining, Anton Piller and contempt-citation orders granted to a former Alberta Health Services board member who… …
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Weyerhaeuser fined $355K after worker killed at Grande Prairie, Alta., lumber mill
Weyerhaeuser Company Limited has been ordered to pay $355,000 after a worker died at a lumber mill near Grande Prairie, Alta. The company pleaded guilty on May 19 in the …
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Alberta labour board sends Safeway walking steward dispute with UFCW to arbitration
The Alberta Labour Relations Board has deferred an unfair labour practice complaint against Sobeys Capital Incorporated to arbitration, ruling that the dispute over the grocer’s cancellation of a unio… Free …
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The Court of King’s Bench of Alberta has dismissed H&R Block Canada’s appeal of a decision refusing summary dismissal of a former vice-president’s wrongful dismissal claim, finding the dispute is …
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Just CauseSubscriber ContentWrongful Dismissal
PREMIUM Suncor had cause to fire 40-year engineer over son’s patent: Alberta court
The Court of King’s Bench of Alberta has dismissed a wrongful dismissal claim brought by a senior technical advisor with more than 40 years of service at Suncor Energy, finding… …