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Safety Violation Does Not Defeat Due Diligence: BC’s Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal Cancels $57,000 Penalty
A recent Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal (WCAT) decision provides useful guidance on the due diligence defence available to employers facing occupational health and safety administrative penalties. In A2300616 (Re), 2026 CanLII 54697 (BC WCAT), WCAT cancelled a $57,282.25 administrative penalty arising from an excavator rupturing a natural gas line.
B.C. Decision Highlights Importance Of Clarity In Restrictive Covenants
Sam Tecle’s articles from Gowling WLG are most popular: within Employment and HR topic(s) with Senior Company Executives, HR and Finance and Tax Executives in Canada with readers working within the Accounting & Consultancy, Automotive and Business & Consumer Services industries Restrictive covenant intended to protect business of brokering sales of dental practices In Heaps & Doyle Practice Solutions Inc. v.
B.C. decision highlights importance of clarity in restrictive covenants
In Heaps & Doyle Practice Solutions Inc. v. Pacula[1] (Pacula), the Supreme Court of British Columbia narrowly interpreted the scope of a restrictive covenant in an independent contractor agreement such that the contractor was entitled to continue recruiting dentists immediately after ceasing to provide the company with these services. The Pacula case involved a purchase and sale agreement in which Hill Kindy Practice Sales & Realty Inc.
B.C. employers urged to act early on pay transparency compliance: Sam Tecle with HR Reporter
Speaking recently with HR Reporter, Sam Tecle, a lawyer in Gowling WLG’s Vancouver office, weighed in on British Columbia’s phased approach to gender pay gap reporting. As part of the province’s ongoing push for pay transparency, large employers will soon be required to publish detailed reports on pay disparities—with the next reporting deadline landing on November 1, 2025 for employers with 300 or more employees.
BC's Pay Transparency Act: Key Considerations For Employers' Upcoming Reporting Deadline
In recent years, British Columbia's Pay Transparency Act (the Act) has increased the public's understanding of pay disparities in BC's workforce. The Act came into effect on May 11, 2023, and applies only to BC provincially-regulated employers. The goal of the Act is to address systemic discrimination and reduce the gender pay gap against women and gender-diverse people.
BC’s Pay Transparency Act: Key considerations for employers’ upcoming reporting deadline
In recent years, British Columbia’s Pay Transparency Act (the Act) has increased the public’s understanding of pay disparities in BC’s workforce. The Act came into effect on May 11, 2023, and applies only to BC provincially-regulated employers. The goal of the Act is to address systemic discrimination and reduce the gender pay gap against women and gender-diverse people.
Stuart Hall, Race, and Black Diaspora Memory
In September of 2015, I attended a two-day conference titled “Policing the Crises: Stuart Hall and the Practice of Critique”at Barnard College in New York.1 Taking place shortly after Hall’s death, the conference convened an impressive array of thinkers from across a range of disciplines, institutions, and nations. I open this review by recalling that conference and an exchange that came toward the end of the event.
Pay Transparency: BC Requirements And Potential Changes For Ontario Employers (Video)
Recently, the Government of British Columbia has introduced new pay transparency laws that impose obligations on employers relating to the disclosure of information about employee compensation. The Government of Ontario has also recently introduced legislation that, if passed, will require more transparency in job postings, including regarding employee compensation.
Proof Of Disability Is Required For Exemption From Mask Mandates In Indoor Public Spaces (BC Human Rights Tribunal) - Employment and HR - Canada
Canada: Proof Of Disability Is Required For Exemption From Mask Mandates In Indoor Public Spaces (BC Human Rights Tribunal) 21 April 2021 by Jonathan J. Lam and Sam Tecle Gowling WLG Your LinkedIn Connections with the authors To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com.
Opinion | For governments, leaders, Black History Month is a way to put a PR bandage against continued anti-Black racism. This is what it should look like
If we accept Black History Month as only a month for shallow, pageantlike celebrations, then we’ve lost the plot. Another way is possible, Sam Tecle writes. By Sam TecleContributor Tue., Feb. 23, 2021timer5 min. read Since 1995, Canada has officially celebrated Black History Month every February. Every year it represents a deep contradiction.
Opinion | For governments, leaders, Black History Month is a way to put a PR bandage against continued anti-Black racism. This is what it should look like
By Sam TecleContributor Tue., Feb. 23, 2021timer5 min. read updateArticle was updated 8 hrs ago Since 1995, Canada has officially celebrated Black History Month every February. Every year it represents a deep contradiction. Following the police murder of George Floyd in 2020, which ignited Black Lives Matter protests around the world, including here in Canada, these PR-like campaigns from governments and leaders are pushing the message that this Black History Month should resonate more than ever.
Draganfly Completes Acquisition Of Dronelogics Systems
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B.C. Government Releases List Of Essential Services During Covid-19 Pandemic
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State Of Emergency In B.C.: What It Means For Your Workplace
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Public Health Emergency In The Yukon: What It Means For Your Workplace
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BC's New Employer Health Tax Filing Due March 31, 2020
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CCTV Cameras to be installed by Toronto Police Force
I wear many hats in this city, but today I am speaking to this body as a community worker in the Jane and Finch community, where I have grown up, work and struggle to build a livable city primarily for the Black and racialized residents that call that northwest corner of this city home. I am making this deputation because of a recent Public Notification that the Toronto Police Force sent to select community organizations and schools in the Jane and Finch community.
The Enforceability Of Arbitration Clauses In BC Employment Contracts
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Negligent misrepresentation claims against employers: A matter for labour arbitrators or civil courts? | Lexology
Introduction Does a unionized employee's claim of negligent misrepresentation against an employer fall outside of the jurisdiction of a labour arbitrator and within the jurisdiction of the civil courts? The BC Court of Appeal in Stene v.
A Matter For Labour Arbitrators Or Civil Courts?
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Jane and Finch, Metro Morning and “Democracy From The Ground Up”
Very recently, CBC’s Metro Morning ran a weeklong series on an Osgoode Hall Law School initiative titled: “Democracy from The Ground Up.” The initiative, seemingly designed with the October 19th (2015) federal election in mind, is aimed at increasing voter turnout in the Jane and Finch community. According to CBC producer, Mary Wiems, only 27,000 people (33% of the Humber River-Black Creek riding – which includes Jane and Finch) voted in the last federal election.
Anti-blackness
Photo by Christopher Furlong On the afternoon of Oct. 23, 2015, two black boys, ages 10 and 15, were walking home as usual from school in Toronto. With reports of an armed black youth in the area and vague descriptions in hand, Toronto police approached the boys, screaming with guns drawn, forcing them to the ground. Thankfully, neither of the boys were shot, but this recent incident is not — as the Toronto Police Service would have us believe — one of simple mistaken identity.
Despite what you have heard, Toronto’s Jane and Finch community is joyful, resilient and strong
Despite what you have heard, Toronto’s Jane and Finch community is joyful, resilient and strong By Sam Tecle I grew up in Jane and Finch in the ’90s, in a reddish high-rise building on Tobermory Drive, perched on a hill across the street from the York Woods public library. Some of my earliest memories are the meetings we used to have in the community rec room on the ground floor.
Despite what you have heard, Toronto’s Jane and Finch community is joyful, resilient and strong
Despite what you have heard, Toronto’s Jane and Finch community is joyful, resilient and strong By Sam Tecle I grew up in Jane and Finch in the ’90s, in a reddish high-rise building on Tobermory Drive, perched on a hill across the street from the York Woods public library. Some of my earliest memories are the meetings we used to have in the community rec room on the ground floor.
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