The Court of Appeal for British Columbia has upheld a $50,000 award for loss of future earning capacity to a woman injured in a 2014 motor vehicle accident, finding the …
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FeaturedWrongful Dismissal
Former liquor store president in B.C. who misappropriated funds hit with $100K in punitive damages
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ordered a former company president to pay $100,000 in punitive damages and $137,067.43 in pre-judgment interest after finding he misappropriated more than $81… …
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FeaturedOccupational Health & SafetyWorkplace Violence
Nurse suspended after reporting threat at B.C. homeless encampment loses reprisal appeal
A registered nurse who said her employer suspended her in reprisal for reporting a threatening encounter at a homeless encampment has lost her appeal, with the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal …
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FeaturedMental HealthOccupational Health & Safety
Lead operator’s yelling wasn’t bullying, B.C. tribunal denies claim
A British Columbia machine operator who said a shouting confrontation with her lead operator left her with a mental disorder has lost her bid for compensation, after the Workers’ Compensation …
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The Federal Court has overturned a federal officer’s refusal of a British Columbia long-haul trucking company’s bid to hire eight temporary foreign workers as truck drivers, ruling the decision unreas… …
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The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed a complaint from an indigenous woman who alleged she was denied a Health Manager job with British Columbia’s Sechelt First Nation because of …
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The Court of Appeal for British Columbia has dismissed an appeal from a self-represented litigant who sued a vice-chair of the British Columbia Labour Relations Board in his personal capacity, …
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The Supreme Court of British Columbia has found that Mac’s Convenience Stores breached its duty of honesty in contractual performance toward a group of temporary foreign workers it recruited but …
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Worker can’t rewrite argument to revive Trans Mountain human rights complaint: B.C. tribunal
A worker cannot revive her dismissed human rights complaint against Trans Mountain by changing her position on whether the pipeline company was her employer, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal… …
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Arbitration/Labour RelationsFeatured
B.C. court sends Civeo punitive damages back over double counting
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has upheld a labour arbitrator’s authority to hear an employer’s defamation grievance against a union but ordered the British Columbia Labour Relations Board to …

