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When Does Winning an ESA Complaint Bar an Employee from Bringing a Human Rights Complaint?
May 15th, 2012

The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal issued a decision last week that caused my eyebrows to raise ever so slightly. The decision involved  an application for reconsideration of an earlier decision in which the Tribunal dismissed a complaint under Section 45.1 of the Code.  That is the section that al... Read more »

Legislation Voiding Construction Collective Agreement if Employer Not in “Construction” Doesn’t Violate Charter
May 11th, 2012

I’m currently revising and updating my little pamphlet called The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Workplace Law: A Guide for Beginners. That piece is only 2 years old, yet is sadly out of date already.  Given the volume of Charter cases dealing with labour issues these days, writ... Read more »

Right to Videotape and Publish Photos of People Crossing Picket Line Constitutionally Protected
May 10th, 2012

The Alberta Court of Appeal issued an interesting Charter decision last week involving the rights of unions to videotape and then publish, in written material and on the Internet, images of people who cross a legal picket line.  The case is called UFCW, Local 401 v. Alberta (A-G).   The Court rule... Read more »

Is the Task of HRM Professionals to Advocate For Employees?
May 8th, 2012

What do you think of this claim by an American “strategic HR lawyer”, which came to me by way of a Tweet yesterday? Speak Up! No one will advocate for employees as well as the HR professional. This is one of the areas in which you can shine. When employees are being treated poorly, open... Read more »

Special Journal Issue with Papers from Oxford’s ‘Voices at Work’ Workshop
May 8th, 2012

A series of excellent labour law papers previously presented at Oxford University’s Voices at Work workshop has just been published in the new edition of the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal.  Here is the line up: Vol. 33, #3 (2012) Alan Bogg and Tonia Novitz, Investigating “Vo... Read more »

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