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December 2005

Wage earner protection legislation passes Third Reading

Bill C-55, the Wage Earner Protection Program Act, recently passed Third Reading in the House of Commons. The Act establishes a program to provide payments to workers who are owed wages by bankrupt employers or companies in receivership. Under previous…

B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner reappointed

David Loukidelis, the incumbent Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C., has been reappointed for another six-year term. The reappointment received unanimous approval of the B.C Legislative Assembly, following a recommendation of a special committee pursuant to s. 37(1) of the…

Transfer of work to related U.S. facility: contracting out?

Two arbitrators recently came to different conclusions on whether an employer “contracts out” bargaining unit work by sending it to a related facility in the U.S. Canadian National Railways In 1998, Canadian National Railways merged with the Illinois Central Railroad….

Statutory office holder entitled to procedural fairness

The B.C. Court of Appeal has ordered the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists to reinstate its former registrar with back pay after finding that it denied him procedural fairness in dismissing him. The former registrar, Mr. Wong,…

Supreme Court of Canada strengthens whistleblower protection

An employee of a trade union who “blew the whistle” on financial misconduct by her supervisors and then lost her job was recently vindicated by the Supreme Court of Canada, which held that she deserved protection from dismissal under Saskatchewan’s…

December 2005

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