Duty to Mitigate May Include Taking Job Offered

By James D. Kondopulos You’ve been a valued employee for 18 years.  One day you’re told that your position is being eliminated at the end...

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Policy, Property and Privacy: Employer-owned Computers

By Graeme McFarlane Computers are everywhere.  They say that the average cell phone has more computing power than did NASA when it sent people to...

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Dear God: I Quit

By Robert Smithson Approximately 1.2 billion Catholics woke up this week to the news that Pope Benedict XVI has given two weeks’ notice of resignation....

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Workplace Drug Testing Being Tested Again

By Robert Smithson It seems that every few years a Canadian employer takes a run at the human rights-based rules preventing workplace drug and alcohol...

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Bill 14 Update – Trends and Interim Practice Directive from WorkSafeBC

By Marino Sveinson It has been six months since Bill 14 came into effect on July 1, 2012 along with WorkSafeBC’s corresponding compensation policy on...

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Resolutions for Business in 2013

By Robert Smithson In the weeks before the end of 2012, I had been mulling over the phrase “do better” as a way of capturing...

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Bangladesh Factory Fire Revives Century Old Memories

By Robert Smithson A recent fire in a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh provided a reminder of a strikingly similar tragedy in New York...

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No Continuity of Business: Target Not Successor Employer of Zellers Employees

By Christina Catenacci and Yosie Saint-Cyr On November 8, 2012, Ritu Mahil, Vice-Chair of the British Columbia Labour Relations Board decided that there was not...

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