Labour and Employment Law Blog

Litigation takes time and money. Effective legal counsel use various processes available to help clients achieve the best outcome in each case. 

Summary trials are an important procedural option in litigation.  In many cases, they can provide an efficient and quicker means to obtain a judgment.  In January 2024, Alberta’s old summary trial process was replaced with a ...

On November 9, 2023 the Minister of Labour introduced legislation to ban the use of replacement workers by federally regulated employers during labour disputes. A replacement worker is a person who does the work of a unionized worker who is on strike or locked out.

Currently, Part I of the Canada Labour Code only prohibits employers from using replacement workers if they are ...

In Oostlander v Cervus Equipment Corporation, 2023 ABCA 13 the Alberta Court of Appeal (“ABCA”) confirmed that payments received under the Canada Emergency Response Benefit program (“CERB”) cannot be deducted from damages awarded for wrongful dismissal.

The ABCA was greatly persuaded by the decision in Yates v Langley Motor Sport Centre Ltd, 2022 BCCA 398^[1]

In 2018, after several years of working at Buzzfeed, Keith Habersberger, Ned Fulmer, Zach Kornfeld, and Eugene Lee Yang started 2^nd Try, LLC (“2^nd Try”). 2^nd Try is a California production company, created and managed by the four individuals (a.k.a. the “Try Guys”). The Try Guys produced and starred in original video content wherein – you guessed it – they try ...

Employers and employees saw the workplace change rapidly since March 2020. After a whirlwind of workforce changes and policies, litigation on the appropriateness of COVID-19 workplace measures is working its way through the courts, and the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench has recently released a decision on masking. In the recent decision, Benke v Loblaw Companies ...