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Employment, Labour and Human Rights Law Case Comments

Written by: Hema Ahuja and Aicha Kouyaté Justice J.T Eamon of the Court of Queen’s Bench in Calgary recently released his Reasons for Decision in Schaufert v Calgary Co-Operative...

Employment, Labour and Human Rights Law Covid-19

Written by Suzanne M. Porteous and Catherine A. Crang, Q.C. The City of Calgary passed a new vaccine passport bylaw effective yesterday, Thursday September 23, for many Calgary...

Employment, Labour and Human Rights Law Covid-19

Written by Suzanne M. Porteous and Catherine A. Crang, Q.C.

Employment, Labour and Human Rights Law

Written by Natalie L. Leclerc and Michael A. Custer As we previously discussed on the blog here, the government of Alberta is replacing the current Occupational Health and Safety Act[1]...

Employment, Labour and Human Rights Law Covid-19

As the COVID-19 vaccine becomes more widely available to Canadians, can it be made mandatory? The Canadian Employment Group belonging to Lawyers Associated Worldwide (“LAW”), a global...

Employment, Labour and Human Rights Law

Written by Catherine A. Crang, Q.C. and Suzanne M. Porteous  The Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench recently released its reasons for judgment (“Reasons”) in the case of Kosteckyj v....

Employment, Labour and Human Rights Law

Written by Natalie L. Leclerc and Michael A. Custer The government of Alberta passed Bill 47 last December, the Ensuring Safety and Cutting Red Tape Act, 2020[1] (the “Act”), as part of...

Employment, Labour and Human Rights Law Case Comments

Written by Suzanne M. Porteous and Catherine A. Crang, Q.C. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) recently dismissed two allegations of discrimination by complainants in...

Employment, Labour and Human Rights Law Covid-19

Written by Natalie L. Leclerc and Aicha Kouyaté We previously discussed whether employers could make obtaining the COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for their employees. Notwithstanding the...

Employment, Labour and Human Rights Law Covid-19

Written by Suzanne M. Porteous and Ryan J. Barata