An interesting case that is making headlines from France. Catherine Sanderson was working as a secretary for Anglo-French accounting firm Dixon Wilson in Paris. In 2004 she started writing an anonymous blog, La Petit Anglaise, that made reference to the office and was fired sometime in 2006. She sued her employer and recently won her […]
Kollen v. Vancouver (City), 2007 BCSC 295, is a continuation of a long standing Vancouver City non-conforming use sign case. In this edition of the municipal saga, the City brought a contempt motion against the sign owners for placing new advertising copy on the sign. The contempt order was denied on the basis that the […]
A recent arbitration award deals with the matter of hard hat accommodation in safety sensitive positions on the basis of religious belief. The case, BCMEA , Neptune Bulk Terminals Ltd and PCT v. ILWU, Local 500, deals with Sikh longshoremen. The Sikh workers refused to wear the hard hats, as required by the employers and […]
Municipal inspectors have tremendous powers under the legislative schemes that govern their inspection powers. Brewster v. City of New Westminster, 2006 BCSC 1837 is a case that concerns the powers of a City of New Westminster municipal fire inspector. The fire inspector made an order to remove a canoe from a parking space on the […]
The Alberta Court of Appeal has now ruled in Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 583 v. Calgary (City of), 2007 ABCA 121, that under the Albert legislative regime Labour Arbitrators and the human rights tribunal have a concurrent jurisdiction to review a discrimination complaint brought under a collective agreement grievance. The matter of concurrent versus exclusive […]