Labour Pains

In 1986, English rocker Robert Palmer suggested that you might as well face it, you’re addicted to love. What if, however, rather than bei...

Can posts to one’s Facebook profile about a co-worker be grounds for “just cause” for dismissal? In yet another case from the labour worl...

Does the existence of an employee/employer relationship disqualify an employee from patenting an invention discovered in the course of e...

This blog, as well as other employment law blogs, heralded the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R. v. Cole as a watershed momen...

Imagine, for a moment, the most ridiculous act of self-harm that an individual could do himself. Did you imagine stapling your scrotum to...

Do employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy in employer-provided technology? In an update to my earlier post Employees’ Rights...

Employers often have the actual ability to access their employees’ private email accounts. But do they have the legal right to do so? Pr...

In July of 2012, the CBC featured a story on the issue of unpaid overtime. In that piece, the author essentially argued that, “Mobile te...

In an earlier post ( You Can’t Do That on the Internet ) I canvassed what some Ontario Labour Relations Tribunals have done with respect ...

As someone who both practices employment law and blogs, tweets, whatever verb Facebook becomes, a question that is often put to me by per...

A lesson to Human Resources personnel: beware what you e-mail.  In a decision released May 18, 2012, Bennett v. Sears Canada Inc. , 2012 ...

Twenty or so years ago there was a television show called “You Can’t Do That on Television.” A frequent question emerging in employment l...

Do employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy in employer-provided technology? Although it was a criminal case, the case of R. ...