SCC Heating Today: Can a Law Prohibit a Union from Recording and Publishing Names, Images of People Who Cross a Lawful Picket Line?
The Supreme Court is hearing an appeal of an Alberta Court of Appeal decision involving the right of unions to record and publish the names and images of workers who cross a lawful picket line. The Court of Appeal ruled that privacy…
Like many other labour law professors from around the world, I am off to Barcelona for the Labour Law Research Network conference this week. Can’t wait to get there, and to listen to the world’s leading minds on labour and…
‘Insubordinate’ Articling Student Dismissed For Cause
A lawyer in British Columbia has lost his wrongful dismissal case against a law firm that fired him for insubordination. The employee had articled for less than 3 months when he was dismissed for cause (although the employer gave the…
7 new acquisitions in Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 3 from 2013: The government and the economy, 1783-1861 Goodrich, Carter, 1897-1971 HD 3616 U46 G68 1967 The government and the economy, 1783-1861 / edited by Carter Goodrich.…
The following is an extended passage taken from the wonderfully cranky and pedantic book The King’s English by the wonderfully cranky and pedantic Kingsley Amis. Intended as a highly subjective and opinionated “guide to…
54 new acquisitions in Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 24 from 2013: HD 5764 A6 B45 2012 Flexicurity : the emergence of a European concept / Sonja Bekker. Cambridge : Intersentia, 2012 xiii, 333 p. cm. JC 571 G427 … Continue…