Doorey’s Workplace Law Blog
"Comments, discussion, and analysis of issues and stories dealing with labor and employment law."
Author: David Doorey is a professor of labor law at Toronto's York University.
Blawg Related Categories: Labor & Employment • International • North America • Canada • York University • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Doorey’s Workplace Law Blog
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Discrimination and Language
I read a recent Ontario Human Rights tribunal case in which the Tribunal dismissed a complaint by a worker who had alleged discrimination when she was fired during the training process because her French was…
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Discrimination on the Basis of Pregnancy
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ruled this week that an employer violated the Code when it fired an employee immediately upon learning she was pregnant. I’ll post the decision once it up on the Tribunal…
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Who is the Employer of Temp Workers?
I was on a panel last week at Lancaster House’s Labour Board Law conference in Toronto that considered important labour board decisions over the past year. One line of cases considered the question of who…
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Interview with CAW President Ken Lewenza
There’s a good, wide ranging interview with CAW president Ken Lewenza about the challenges of bargaining in the auto industry during hard times from the Business News Network. Here it is. Note Ken’s explanation of…
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Do Advanced HR Degrees Matter?
Ok, this isn’t really a law issue, but since I teach a labour & employment law course in York’s Master’s of Human Resource Management (MHRM) program, I thought I’d make note of a recent survey…
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Is Statutory Overtime Pay an Implied Term of Employment Contracts
We’ve been talking about implied terms in employment contracts in my courses. These are terms that judges have made up over the years and incorporated into employment contracts. The requirement to give reasonable notice of…