Back to the Basics – Employment Law – Episode 1

Written by: Kyle Hunter In Trafford v ISCO Canada Inc., 2024 AHRC 149, the Alberta Human Rights Commission considered an employer’s obligation to provide part-time work and commissions to an employee that was on an unpaid leave. The complainant was a sales representative for ISCO Canada Inc. whose compensation was, in part, commission-based and who […]

Written by: Kelly Lanyi-Bennet and Ranzell Ortega When an employee asserts that they have been constructively dismissed, it is not always clear what the next steps should be for either the employee or the employer. Specifically, there can be some confusion about when an employee must mitigate their loss of employment income by returning to […]

by Nicole Cooper (Associate) and Mitchell Grimmer (Articling Student) Discrimination Webber Academy Foundation v Alberta (Human Rights Commission), 2023 ABCA 194 [Webber]: In this recent decision from the Alberta Court of Appeal, currently on leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, the Court considered the issue of customary Muslim practices in the context […]