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If It Quacks Like A Duck…

Like most employment lawyers, I have numerous charitable organizations as clients.  As well as having paid employees, such organizations rely heavily on volunteers to advance their worthy objectives in the community. They also depen...

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Why Not Kill Two Birds With One Stone?

I’m a big fan of doing less whenever possible.  In the legal context, that can be a winning strategy in certain situations; one of those is the hiring of employees. Many employers are in the habit of using a two-step approach ...

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The High Price of Enticement

I’ve previously written on the topic of the common law “reasonable working notice” entitlements of short-service employees.  Suffice to say, most employers are taken aback to learn that terminated employees who had only been...

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B.C. Resolves an Age-Old Debate

For as long as I’ve been practicing employment law, my #1 piece of advice to employers has been, “Use proper employment agreements”.  It’s simple advice which, sadly, still has not penetrated much of the employer commu...

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Will B.C. Soon be Saying “R.I.P.” to the Doctor’s Note?

Recent media reports indicate that, as part of a suite of changes intended to free up doctors’ time, Ontario employers will no longer be permitted to demand a doctor’s note to substantiate an employee’...

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Let’s NOT Kill All The Lawyers

              “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” ...

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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Workplace Theft

"If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?”               “Tuco”, in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ...

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COVID Claims Continue to Fail

As time passes and more COVID-related claims are adjudicated, it’s becoming apparent that judges aren’t feeling a lot of sympathy for employees hoping to capitalize, financially. ...

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Easy Come, Easy Go

A few years ago, I wrote an article – Honey, I Shrunk the Family (Status)! – addressing the concept of “family status” discrimination in the province of B.C.  In particular, that article dis...

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