Category: Employment

Random drug and alcohol testing: what is a ‘safety sensitive’ workplace?

Changes announced to the Employment Relations Act

Tripartite employment relationships – who is the employer?

Ensuring that a trial period clause is valid

Accelerating Ripeness in Mediation – by guest mediator Rick Weiler of Ottawa, Canada

Is a fair process required to terminate a contract for services?

Survey report on employers’ perspectives of trial periods

Protecting training investment by ‘bonding’ an employee for a period of service

When will an employee’s resignation amount to a constructive dismissal?

Accessing an employee’s personal email account via information obtained from key stroke logs on their work computer

Can an employer recover wages that were overpaid to an employee ?

When is ‘casual’ employment truly casual?

Awarding costs for attending mediation

Bill Wood QC of Brick Court Chambers, London

Set in stone: employment settlements that are signed by a mediator