Can an employer discipline or terminate an employee for cause for her off-duty conduct? This question, no doubt, was at the forefront of some employers’ thoughts after the Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver, particularly after viewing their employees pictures in the local newspapers or police website or seeing them prominently featured on live or tapedContinue reading “Off-duty conduct of an employee may constitute just cause for dismissal”
Notice extension for bad faith dismissal: “a remedy divorced from the wrong”
For the print version, click here This article was published in the Vancouver Bar Association‘s The Advocate Introduction The effect of the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Wallace v. United Grain Growers Ltd.((Wallace v. United Grain Growers Ltd. (1997), 152 D.L.R. (4th) 1)) is irrefutably significant in the development of the lawContinue reading “Notice extension for bad faith dismissal: “a remedy divorced from the wrong””