No Duty to Self-Accommodate for Employer Childcare Accommodations
An important case addressing the standard of family discrimination in Alberta involves an ER nurse who asked to remain in
Employee Needn’t Use Up Contract Personal Days to Take Paid CLC Leave
An employee with enough service to qualify for 3 days of personal paid leave under Sec. 206.6 of Canada Labour
Does Legalized Marijuana Provide More Leeway for Random Drug Testing?
The union contended that unannounced random urine drug testing of safety-sensitive public airport workers, in this case a firefighter, was
Do Employees Who Wear Religious Headwear Have to Use Hardhats?
Safety comes before religion but your duty is not to force workers to choose between them. Under OHS laws, employers
13 Ways to Battle Islamophobia in Canadian Workplaces
In January of 2017, an act of terror took the lives of six people at the Grand Mosque in
Driver Keeps His Job Even Though His “Slackness” Caused Costly Incident
The semi-trailer driver would have noticed the misalignment between the vehicle and trailer had he been paying attention and gotten
Must Employers Pay for Training Time of People Before They Start the Job?
A CNESST inspector cited a recruiting firm for what she believed were 2 labour standards violations: (i) requiring employees to
Speeding Past Stopped School Bus Is Just Cause to Terminate
A heavy truck driven by an Apprentice Powerline Technician “blew by” a yellow school bus that had stopped to pick