Back to the Basics – Employment Law – Episode 1

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 […]

A Case Summary of R v Greater Sudbury (City)[1] Written by Iain A. Walker (Partner) and Zachary Fischer (Articling Student) Overview The Supreme Court of Canada recently released its decision in R v Greater Sudbury (City) dismissing an appeal over the finding that a municipality was an employer under Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act […]

Written by: Fahad Malik Intro The central issue of the case is whether a without-cause dismissal can later be reclassified as a for cause dismissal when the material circumstances were known to the employer before the dismissal. J Lema found it cannot. The first half of the decision deals with the reclassification of a without-cause […]