Doorey’s Workplace Law Blog

Recent Posts from Doorey’s Workplace Law Blog

• Guest Blog: McKennirey on Reforming the Labour-Trade Linkage

  Occassionally, I’ve been fortunate to publish here some very interesting original papers dealing with labour law issues.   Here is another one.  This paper comes John McKennirey, who has a very impressive resume.  He was the…

• Enforcing ESA Claims Through Wrongful Dismissal Lawsuits

  A while back, I mentioned an Ontario Court of Appeal case called Evagalista v. Number 7 Sales as part of my discussion of whether ESA entitlements (like overtime pay) are implied terms of employment contracts.   Evagalista…

• Canadian Scholars Debunk American Hysteria Over the Employee Free Choice Act

  I’ve discussed the American labor law reform debates, and the proposed Employee Free Choice Act on a number of occasions.  That law would allow unions to be certified on the basis of union membership cards…

• Is a “Consensual” Relationship Between a Manager and a Subordinate Cause for Dismissal?

  There was an interesting wrongful dismissal case out of the Ontario Superior Court recently called Cavaliere v. Corvex Manufacturing.  The employee was dismissed for cause (without notice) for engaging in sexual relationships with two subordinates…

• Can Cadillac Fairview Terminate Striking Parking Lot Workers?

  This past summer, Cadillac Fairview, which owns the TD Centre in Toronto, locked out its unionized workers and contracted out their work to a third party contractor.  A month or so after that, it decided…

• Capitalism Needs Strong Government Regulation, says over 75% of Canadians

  Should the state regulate labour markets, or leave the determination of terms and conditions of employment to the ‘free’ market by leaving employers and employees to ‘bargain’ those terms without government intervention? This is a…

• Real Pleadings: Walmart Sues UFCW for Using its Logo & Slogans

  A couple of months ago, the media got wind of a lawsuit filed by Walmart against the Canadian United Food and Commercial Workers seeking an injunction to stop the union from using Walmart logos and…

• Top 100 Employment Law Blogs!

  The amazing annual list of the Top 100 Employment Law blogs prepared by the Delaware Employment Law blog is up again.  Here it is. It’s amazing both for the fact that someone has been able…

• Wal-Mart Fires Security Guard for Catching Thief

  Since we are talking about dismissal for cause in my employment law course this week, I’d thought I’d note an American incident involving that bastion of progressive employment practices, Wal-Mart. Security guard Josh Rutner saw…

• Congrats to Marie-Helene Budworth

      Congratulations to my friend and colleague, Professor Marie-Helene Budworth of the School of Human Resource Management at York for being nominated as Ontario’s Best Lecturer in the annual TVO competition.  For those of us…