The recent Supreme Court of Canada decision in Jacmain v. A. G. of Can. and the P.S.S.R. Board\u27 partly clarifies the rights and protections accorded a federal government probationary worker upon dismissal. Regretably, however, with reference to the role of a grievance adjudicator (a federal tribunal) in such matters, and even more so with reference to the role of the courts in supervising the jurisdictional findings of such a tribunal, the Jacmain decision is less instructive. The facts of the case are relatively complex. Jacmain had been an employee with the Department of National Revenue prior to entering a competition with the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages. In May 1973 he was appointed to the Complaints Branch o...
The Supreme Court of Canada bas in its recent decision in Ward v. Attorney General (Canada) consider...
Employee Grievance alleging unjust discharge. AWARD: Employee grievance alleging breach of a collect...
The recent decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal in Smyth v. Szep once again canvasses th...
The recent Supreme Court of Canada decision in Jacmain v. A. G. of Can. and the P.S.S.R. Board\u27 p...
The Supreme Court of Canada judgment in Khadr rules that the Charter applies to the actions of Canad...
In Sobeys Store Limited v. Yeomans et aLI the Appeal Division of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court seems...
In a recent ruling (Parry Sound (District) Social Services Administration Board v. O.P.S.E.U., Local...
Canadian courts have accepted mandatory arbitration clauses as presumptively enforceable unless ther...
The following article is a case comment on Attorney General of Canada v. Patrick Francis Ward, a rec...
In Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd v Wilson (Wilson), the Federal Court held for the first time that an ...
In a day and age where a large portion of both innocent and criminal communications travel across th...
Employee Discharge alleging unjust discharge. Determination of quantum of damages. AWARD: In an awar...
The Supreme Court of Appeal (hereinafter “the SCA”) was recently tasked with resolving the elusive a...
The Grievor was dismissed on the basis on the large number of sick days he had accumulated within a ...
In Beckman v. Little Salmon/Carmacks, Binnie J. observed that administrative law processes and remed...
The Supreme Court of Canada bas in its recent decision in Ward v. Attorney General (Canada) consider...
Employee Grievance alleging unjust discharge. AWARD: Employee grievance alleging breach of a collect...
The recent decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal in Smyth v. Szep once again canvasses th...
The recent Supreme Court of Canada decision in Jacmain v. A. G. of Can. and the P.S.S.R. Board\u27 p...
The Supreme Court of Canada judgment in Khadr rules that the Charter applies to the actions of Canad...
In Sobeys Store Limited v. Yeomans et aLI the Appeal Division of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court seems...
In a recent ruling (Parry Sound (District) Social Services Administration Board v. O.P.S.E.U., Local...
Canadian courts have accepted mandatory arbitration clauses as presumptively enforceable unless ther...
The following article is a case comment on Attorney General of Canada v. Patrick Francis Ward, a rec...
In Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd v Wilson (Wilson), the Federal Court held for the first time that an ...
In a day and age where a large portion of both innocent and criminal communications travel across th...
Employee Discharge alleging unjust discharge. Determination of quantum of damages. AWARD: In an awar...
The Supreme Court of Appeal (hereinafter “the SCA”) was recently tasked with resolving the elusive a...
The Grievor was dismissed on the basis on the large number of sick days he had accumulated within a ...
In Beckman v. Little Salmon/Carmacks, Binnie J. observed that administrative law processes and remed...
The Supreme Court of Canada bas in its recent decision in Ward v. Attorney General (Canada) consider...
Employee Grievance alleging unjust discharge. AWARD: Employee grievance alleging breach of a collect...
The recent decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal in Smyth v. Szep once again canvasses th...