Category: Employment Law

A recent decision of the Ontario Court of Justice, IKO Industries Ltd. v. U.S.W.A., Local 8580, 2006 CarswellOnt 7541 (Ont. S.C.J., upheld an arbitrator's decision that finger scan technology was not acceptable in the workplace. Compare this to cases cited…

Randomn drug testing in the workplace is one of those issues that continues to provide employers, unions and employees a difficult roadmap to follow. Communications, Energy & Paperworkers Union of Canada, Local 900 v. Imperial Oil Ltd., a decison of…

I had written about the Sulz decision in an earlier post and which has now been affirmed by the BC Court of Appeal. The decision is significant because it addresses the jurisdictional argument raised by cases such as Vaughan and…