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How Has Collective Bargaining Shaped the Canadian Workforce?

Collective Bargaining in Canada: How It Affects Employers and Employees While it may seem impossible today, it wasn’t that long ago that Canadians faced extremely poor working conditions, including safety hazards on the job, long hours, and mistreatment from employers. Just a few generations ago, employment looked very different, and labor laws were almost nonexistent. […]

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How Does Wrongful Dismissal Law Work in Canada?

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Understanding What Wrongful Dismissal Is and What You Can Do About It Being fired is rarely a pleasant experience, even if you didn’t like your job or were planning on moving on anyway. If there were multiple disciplinary actions or your employer had already put you on probation, it’s likely that this wasn’t a surprise.

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AI’s Impact on Employment Law

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With the continuous advancement of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and its transformative effects on various industries, it is also becoming increasingly influential in employment law. In workplaces, AI systems are utilized more and more to streamline operations, automate tasks, and enhance efficiency, yet they concurrently give rise to numerous legal and ethical questions that must be

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Can my employer lay me off?

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If you are in a union, this question depends on the language of your collective agreement and we recommend that you contact your union representative. If you are not in a union, the Employment Standards Act only permits temporary layoffs in very limited circumstances. Economic Downturn & Temporary Layoffs During times of economic downturn, such as those

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5 Reasons Why Your Workplace Needs to Unionize

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Why Your Workplace Needs to Unionize In a non-unionized workplace, the terms and conditions of the employee’s employment are governed through oral or written employment contract between the employee and the employer, and employment standards legislation. In a unionized workplace, however, a trade union that has been chosen by the majority of the employees will

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Retaining an employment, labour, or human rights lawyer: buyer beware!

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Retaining a labour lawyer – Recent changes to ICBC have led to personal injury lawyers masquerading as employment, labour, and human rights lawyers. Retaining an experienced employment, human rights or labour lawyer is often one of the most critical decisions you will make. Unfortunately, if you’re making this decision in BC, you should make this decision even

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What is “just cause” dismissal?

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“Just cause” dismissal means a dismissal where the employer had cause to terminate the employment of an employee. Why might it be important for an employer to claim that a dismissal was with cause? In a “without cause” dismissal, the employer will usually have an obligation to provide notice, pay in lieu of notice, or

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Have I been constructively dismissed?

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In a previous blog, we discussed what options an employee has available to them if they are being harassed and bullied at work. One of the options we outlined there was for the employee to resign from their employment on the basis that they have been constructively dismissed. What does it mean to be “constructively dismissed?” If an

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Introduction to Labour Relations Process

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The labour relations process that produces a union-management relationship consists of three phases: union organizing, negotiating a collective agreement, and administering or enforcing the collective agreement. Phase One of Labour Relations Process: Union Organizing In phase one of the labour relations process, a non-union employer becomes unionized through an organizing campaign. The campaign starts either

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