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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 ...
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...
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...
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’...
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 ...
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. ...
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...
CIBC Agrees to Pay the Piper $153 Million
The 1842 poem, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, by Robert Browning tells a cautionary tale of a rat-infested German city which agreed to pay a stranger to rid Hamelin of its vermin. The Pied Piper did so as ...