By Robert Smithson
The weird world of employment law sometimes compels employees to go back to work for the very employer which fired them. Recently,...
By Robert Smithson
Union members who are unhappy with the representation they’re being provided by their union will sometimes seek outside legal advice. In doing...
By Robert Smithson
I sometimes refer to the probation period as the Rodney Dangerfield of employment law (for those of you not old enough to...
By Robert Smithson
In a news week in which B.C.’s Liberal Party committed suicide (again), Senator Mike Duffy proved that reading comprehension isn’t a requirement...
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....
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...
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...
By Robert Smithson
A recent fire in a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh provided a reminder of a strikingly similar tragedy in New York...
