The Equity of Mandatory Retirement: Owners are Employees Too

By J. Geoffrey Howard The recent decision of the B.C. Supreme Court in Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP v. McCormick has confirmed that even full...

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Workplace Romance a Risky Affair

By Robert Smithson The sad decline and fall of Canada’s Brigadier General Daniel Menard came to a close last week. It proved that, for everyone...

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Accommodating Employees’ “Family Status”: Soon to be a Legal Imperative?

By Sarah Forte In the era of the “sandwich generation,” many employees are balancing work with significant family obligations – caring for children, aging parents,...

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Things Your Employer Owes You

By Robert Smithson I previously wrote Things Your Employment Doesn’t Include and the feedback I received indicated that employers were relieved to see the boundaries...

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Things Your Employment Doesn’t Include

By Robert Smithson I don’t know if it’s a sign of the times or simply that I’m getting older and crankier, but it seems like...

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What is the State of your Pension?

By Robert Smithson News media are awash with coverage of riots in the streets of Greece (with nary a Stanley Cup game in sight), a...

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Restrictive Covenants: One Size Does Not Fit All

By James D. Kondopulos In a recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal, Mason v. Chem-Trend Limited Partnership, O.J. No. 1994 (C.A.),...

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So Your Employee is an Anarchist

By Robert Smithson You’ve all seen the video and still photos of the regrettable events in downtown Vancouver following the Canucks’ Stanley Cup loss.  But...

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