A detector dog handler who spent early mornings and evenings scrubbing kennels and feeding dogs during a five-week training course has been awarded overtime pay by the Federal Public Sector …
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Constructive DismissalLegal CostsOur Favourites
Worker’s $180,000 constructive dismissal settlement offer too high for double costs: Alberta court
A worker constructively dismissed by Edmonton Granite Memorials will not receive double costs despite a formal settlement offer that came close to the amount he was eventually awarded at trial, …
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AccommodationArbitration/Labour RelationsOur Favourites
B.C. government worker denied request to keep teleworking from Edmonton to care for daughter
A BC Public Service Agency employee seeking to continue working remotely from Edmonton to help care for his daughter has been denied an interim order that would have let him …
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Arbitration/Labour RelationsJust CauseSubscriber Content
PREMIUM Nurse’s 26-year record not enough to overturn firing for improperly restraining elderly resident
A Registered Nurse fired after 26 years at Canterbury Foundation for improperly restraining an elderly resident has lost her bid for reinstatement, an Alberta arbitration board has ruled. The nurse… …
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A speech-language pathologist who said she was fired after seeking email-based accommodations for autism and ADHD has had her human rights complaint dismissed for a second time, with the Human …
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Alberta’s information and privacy commissioner has ordered the Edmonton Police Commission to release additional records connected to contract negotiations with a former Edmonton police chief, and to s… Free Membership …
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An Alberta gas station operator must pay a former retail sales supervisor most of an employment standards order for unpaid wages, overtime and vacation pay after the Alberta Labour Relations …
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Constructive DismissalEmployment ContractsFeatured
Edmonton headstone seller constructively dismissed after being pressured to sign new contract
The Court of King’s Bench of Alberta has ordered an Edmonton memorial company to pay 15 months’ compensation to a long-serving sales manager who resigned after being pressured to sign …
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Arbitration/Labour RelationsFeaturedJust Cause
Edmonton LPN fired after solo tracheostomy procedure and theft of resident’s dessert
A licensed practical nurse at a continuing care facility in Edmonton was properly discharged after performing a tracheostomy ties change without assistance and stealing a dessert meant for residents, … …
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Arbitration/Labour RelationsSubscriber Content
PREMIUM AltaSteel worker reinstated after arbitrator rejects gross negligence finding in cold billet incident
A pulpit operator at an Edmonton steel mill who was fired after a cold billet entered the bar mill and caused significant equipment damage has been reinstated, with an arbitrator… …


