The plaintiff, Larry Higginson had been dismissed from the Babine sawmill in Burns Lake in October, 2009. The Babine sawmill had been acquired in November 2006 by Hampton Lumber Mills Inc. based in Portland, Oregon. Babine Forest Products Inc. and Hampton Lumber Mills Inc. were joint defendants.
The fact is that in a number of scenarios Canadian law does protect your right not to have your Facebook profile reviewed. There are a lot of important caveats to that statement. I will give two examples.
Dan Gleadle has written an article for the Canadian Human Rights Reporter issue published on Januayr 16, 2012, entitled “So What Exactly Constitutes Just Cause?”
There is a recent proposal to amend the Worker’s Compensation regime of this province to include workplace bullying as grounds for compensation.
In this recent BC employment law case, the plaintiff recovered wrongful dismissal damages after long service. Just cause was not alleged at trial, but had been considered based on the plaintiff’s sending offensive jokes of a sexual nature by email.
Today, the BC Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in the claim by Mitch McCormick against Fasken Martineau, upholding the decision of the BC Human Rights Tribunal on the fundamentally important questions of jurisdiction.
Russo v. Kerr a decision of the Ontario Superior Court, addresses some of the more esoteric elements of the interplay between wrongful/constructive dismissal and mitigation of damages.
In this important employment law matter, Faskens (a leading national law firm) has commenced proceedings in the BC Supreme Court in an effort to overturn the decision of the Tribunal.
Over the past years we at TevlinGleadle have acted for a large number of employees of Catalyst Paper Corporation. Catalyst is a company operating a number of pulp and paper mills in British Columbia and elsewhere.
The BC Court of Appeal overturned the trial decision awarding $100,000 in punitive damages.
I chose Tevlin Gleadle Curtis to represent our group because of their reputation as one of the top Employment Law firms in British Columbia. They were the right firm to present our employment and pension class action cases. We definitely benefited by utilization of Tevlin Gleadle Curtis' "team" approach to resolving our list of issues in both classes. At all times our business was conducted in a very professional manner. I do not hesitate in recommending the Tevlin Gleadle Curtis team.