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Canadian Courts Consider Alcohol and Drug Testing in the Workplace

The Supreme Court of Canada (in Irving Pulp & Paper, Ltd. v. Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, Local 30) and the Alberta Court of Appeal (in Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, Local 707 v....more

Privacy Breaches Can Be One-Two Punch for Employers: Arbitrator Awards Damages for Employee Credit Checks that Breached Privacy...

Twenty-six employees of the Alberta Justice and Attorney General’s Maintenance Enforcement Program (“MEP”) were each awarded $1250.00 in damages each after a Peace Officer carrying out a workplace investigation used their...more

Fenwick Employment Brief - January 12, 2010

IN THIS BRIEF: *California labor commissioner allows employers to deduct from exempt employee leave balance in less than half-day increments *Employee complaint about unpaid overtime, albeit mistaken, supported wrongful...more