Randhawa v. The Pepsi Bottling Group (Canada) Co., 2006 BCCA 273, is an interesting case concerning a dismissal arbitration under the BC Commercial Arbitration Act. The BC Court of Appeal confirmed that the Arbitrator did not have jurisdiction to order a reinstatement of the employee in the arbitration.
There are all sorts of ways that businesses and like entities get themselves into trouble. One way is by the actions of their employees. If you run an exercise or activity based program you and your employees must understand the responsibilities that you have with respect to the supervising the safe conduct of your patrons’ […]
As an employee whatever you do don’t do this. Whitehouse v. RBC Dominion Securities Inc., 2006 ABQB 372 concerns a very highly paid executive employee that invites some company up to the office for a little after hours entertainment. This is about as delicate as I could put it. The matter unravels over a fee […]
This is a touchy matter. As an employer you like to give your group some latitude but there always comes a point when the relationship interferes with the workplace. Especially when managers have relations with subordinates. Carroll v. Emco Corporation 2006 BCSC 861, is a case of a male manager who has successive relations with […]
See this Washington Post article on the recent theft of data from the Department of Veteran Affairs. And you thought you made a mistake. Concerns are now being raised that information (SSN and residential addresses) relating to 80% of the individuals on the active duty force is available to the public exposing force members and […]