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Jan 20, 2012 | Court Recognizes Breach of Privacy Tort |
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Jan 05, 2012 | S.C.C. Frees Labour Arbitrators From Strict Legal Rules |
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Nov 28, 2011 | Justifying Covert Surveillance |
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Nov 25, 2011 | Insurance Company Disability Rulings are not Binding |
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Oct 18, 2011 | Can You Discontinue a Practice That is More Generous Than the Collective Agreement Requires? |
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Sep 28, 2011 | NWT Elections: Time Off to Vote |
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Aug 29, 2011 | Minimum Wage Increases in Alberta |
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Aug 17, 2011 | Court of Appeal Neuters Restrictive Covenants |
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Aug 09, 2011 | A Caution About Exposure to "Reasonable Notice of Termination" |
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Jul 26, 2011 | Should Performance Reviews Be Abolished? |
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Jul 22, 2011 | More Support for Random Testing |
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Jul 20, 2011 | Damages for Loss of Disability Insurance Coverage: A Caution |
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Jul 11, 2011 | Courts Showing Greater Willingness to Strike Down Restrictive Covenants |
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Jun 10, 2011 | Andy Sims to Receive Bora Laskin Award |
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Jun 07, 2011 | Absenteeism Statistics Stimulate Debate |
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Jun 03, 2011 | Construction Looking Forward 2011-2019 |
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May 02, 2011 | Supreme Court Narrows the Constitutional Protection of Collective Bargaining |
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Apr 29, 2011 | Employer Generosity Remains Unbinding |
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Apr 04, 2011 | Just How Much Disclosure Can a Union Demand? |
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Feb 08, 2011 | No Just Cause for Discharge. No Reinstatement. What Damages will Arbitrators Award? |
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Feb 02, 2011 | Postal Workers Must Pay for Unlawful Strike |
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Jan 19, 2011 | Who is an Employer Under the Alberta Human Rights Act? |
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Jan 11, 2011 | Summary Trial Before End of Notice Period |
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Jan 05, 2011 | Facebook Postings can Support Just Cause Termination |
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Sep 27, 2010 | Changes to Drug Testing Thresholds |
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Jul 20, 2010 | Court of Appeal Gives Some Guidance on the Right to a Union Steward in Disciplinary Interviews |
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Jul 15, 2010 | Employers can't be sued for Negligent Infliction of Mental Distress - At Least for Now |
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May 28, 2010 | New Saskatchewan Construction Laws Proclaimed |
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May 20, 2010 | Saskatchewan Passes Changes to Construction Labour Laws |
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May 13, 2010 | Court of Appeal Criticizes Vague Grievances |
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May 03, 2010 | PIPA Amendments Take Effect |
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Mar 08, 2010 | Employer Ignores Harassment Complaint at its Peril |
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Feb 26, 2010 | Personal Information Protection Act Amendments |
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Feb 18, 2010 | Supreme Court of Canada Giant Mine Decision |
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Feb 04, 2010 | NWT Minimum Wage Increase |
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Jan 05, 2010 | Supreme Court Upholds Provincial Powers over Labour Relations |
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Dec 02, 2009 | Wal-Mart Closure Survives SCC Scrutiny |
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Nov 18, 2009 | Labour Board says Rand Formula Protected Under Charter |
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Oct 02, 2009 | Alberta's Human Rights Legislation Gets a New Name and Some Updating |
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Sep 02, 2009 | Court Upholds Repayment Clause in Employee Contract |
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Aug 10, 2009 | Court Overturns Union Fines |
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Jul 30, 2009 | Employer Generosity Does Not Create Rights |
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Jun 24, 2009 | Alberta Human Rights Act Amendments |
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Jun 05, 2009 | Who is an Employer for Human Rights Purposes? |
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May 19, 2009 | Ability to Close Open Periods Overturned |
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May 11, 2009 | Employment Standards Code Amendments - Reservist Leave |
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Mar 11, 2009 | Big changes to construction labour laws in Saskatchewan |
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Feb 17, 2009 | Ambiguous restrictive covenant fails |
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Dec 17, 2008 | Collective agreement can specify an agreed penalty for employee misconduct |
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Dec 09, 2008 | Ontario Court of Appeal agrees that unions cannot sue to collect fines |
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Nov 28, 2008 | Canada's top court to decide civil liability arising from workplace explosion set by striking miner |
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Oct 14, 2008 | Biometric scanning upheld |
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Oct 10, 2008 | Huge damages against departing manager for breaching duty of good faith |
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Oct 06, 2008 | Automatic post-incident alcohol/drug testing is unreasonable |
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Sep 30, 2008 | Discharge of employee upheld as a result of inappropriate blogging |
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Sep 05, 2008 | Government proclaims "salting" and "MERFing" amendments to Labour Relations Code |
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Aug 28, 2008 | Employer obliged to provide employee 'basic personal information' to union |
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Jul 28, 2008 | SCC permits retirement when required by a pension plan |
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Jul 23, 2008 | Supreme Court affirms ability to terminate for disability-related absenteeism |
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Jul 14, 2008 | Can a collective agreement say some grievances cannot go to arbitration? |
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Jul 09, 2008 | Duty to mitigate: Have to keep working there? |
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Jun 27, 2008 | SCC affirms ability to actively manage disability absenteeism |
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Jun 25, 2008 | Alberta Provincial Court refuses to enforce union fines |
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Jun 19, 2008 | Arbitrator applies hybrid approach to addiction-related misconduct |
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Jun 17, 2008 | Crime does not pay |
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Jun 06, 2008 | New Labour Relations Code amendments affecting construction contractors and ambulance attendants |
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May 30, 2008 | Court prevents employers from making unilateral contract changes |
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May 29, 2008 | SCC refuses to hear appeal of Chiasson decision |
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May 26, 2008 | NWT Court of Appeal reverses controversial Giant Mine decision |
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May 15, 2008 | Privacy breached by sharing EFAP information |
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May 01, 2008 | Lyle Kanee appointed new Vice Chair of the Alberta Labour Relations Board |
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Mar 10, 2008 | Supreme Court of Canada rewrites law of judicial review of administrative actions |
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Jan 22, 2008 | Government of Canada expands temporary foreign worker pilot project |
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Dec 28, 2007 | Court of Appeal releases much anticipated Chiasson Decision |
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Oct 25, 2007 | Can you reject a job candidate for being overqualified? |
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Oct 19, 2007 | Union ordered to pay damages for illegal strike |
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Sep 06, 2007 | Recent helpful privacy decisions |
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Sep 04, 2007 | Increase to Alberta's Minimum Wage |
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Jun 27, 2007 | Supreme Court of Canada declares that collective bargaining is a Charter right |
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Jun 01, 2007 | New NWT Employment Standards Act |
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Apr 09, 2007 | Alberta Court of Appeal allows choice of forum for human rights complaints |
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Mar 27, 2007 | Site-access drug and alcohol testing upheld |
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Mar 23, 2007 | Anti-Replacement Worker Bill defeated in surprise vote |
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Feb 22, 2007 | Ontario court upholds pre-employment drug test |
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Feb 21, 2007 | Non-competition clause upheld |
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Nov 29, 2006 | Alberta Court of Appeal upholds union dues suspension remedy |
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Nov 21, 2006 | Controversy continues on arbitrator's jurisdiction to award aggravated and punitive damages |
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Nov 14, 2006 | Drug-testing suffers another successful challenge |
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Nov 08, 2006 | Individual personally liable for corporate unfair labour practices: CIRB |
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Oct 13, 2006 | Alberta Court of Appeal affirms narrow view of Wallace damages |
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Oct 05, 2006 | Failure to accommodate disabilities can be very expensive |
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Sep 13, 2006 | Employees may be labour arbitration board nominees |
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Sep 08, 2006 | Clarification to income tax deductions on wrongful dismissal settlements |
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Aug 16, 2006 | Has Alberta's 100,000 worker shortfall affected you? |
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Aug 03, 2006 | McLennan Ross Temporary Foreign Workers Survey |
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Jul 12, 2006 | Criminal record check of new employees permitted in retail sector |
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Jun 12, 2006 | What can employers ask of their sick employees? |
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Jun 05, 2006 | Pre-employment drug testing dealt a blow by Alberta court |
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May 25, 2006 | Supreme Court confirms exclusive jurisdiction of labour arbitrators to resolve pension disputes |
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May 09, 2006 | Social hosts not liable - but what about employers? |
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Mar 27, 2006 | Zero tolerance drug testing policies |
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Feb 15, 2006 | Building trades union solidarity eroded |
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Feb 13, 2006 | Don't take Employment Insurance appeals or Employment Standards proceedings lightly |
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Jan 23, 2006 | Court of Appeal overturns attempt to set aside deal made with departing employee |
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