Human Rights

July 18, 2017, we attended a mediation in a wrongful dismissal claim. The client had been replaced while convalescing from surgery. It was his position that he had told his employer before he left for the surgery that he required up to six months before his doctor would clear him to return to work. The […]

In the Recent case of Stewart v. Elk Valley Coal Corp. the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal was entitled to dismiss a discrimination claim based on drug addiction. Mr. Stewart had been fired from his job for violating the company’s zero-tolerance drug policy. He argued that he was being