Written by: Matthew K. LeBlanc What happens when a company terminates someone who is both an employee and a shareholder? In Kirke v Spartan Controls Ltd, 2025 ABCA 40 (“Spartan Controls”), the Alberta Court of Appeal reiterated the distinction between a person’s employment rights and their shareholder rights, and held that the payments owed upon […]
Strikes and lockouts cause massive interruptions in an employer’s operations. When faced with a strike or lockout, employers will sometimes use replacement workers to continue their operations and ease the financial consequences. Replacement workers, colloquially known as “scabs”, are people who are hired or used to temporarily perform the bargaining unit work of the unionized […]
Workplace fatalities have frequently attracted charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations. For the first time in New Brunswick, a supervisor has been found criminally liable, following a workplace fatality, for failing to follow safety rules and protocols during a work project. In His Majesty the King v Jason Andrew King, 2023 […]