Labour & Employment in Alberta

Alberta has released its 2023 annual report for the part of the government that was at one time called Labour and that relate to Albertans ...

This blog was originally posted on the Parkland Institute blog . What can Alberta workers expect from a United Conservative Party governmen...

  Alberta Views recent published an article I wrote about the UCP's record on labour issues. The article reprises and extends a chapter...

The Well Endowed Podcast is publishing a series on the 25th Anniversary of the Vriend decision . While sexual orientation had been deemed a...

Many labour-side practitioners assert that the financial penalties levied against employers that violate occupational health and safety rule...

When we teach HR and LR students about the web of rules that regulate employment, we often focus our attention on the various sources of rul...

In late December, my colleagues Jason Foster, Susan Cake and Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull and I wrote about Alberta’s efforts to gut Alberta’s j...

Canada and the US are outliers in historically having no statutory paid sick leave. Alberta’s opposition party has proposed 10 days of leave...

I'm not much for podcasts but the Alberta Advantage podcast (basically lefty political economy analysis out of Calgary) is often worth a...

Source: D'Arcy Norman, Wikipedia Commons Last week, I ran across an OHS order directed at the University of Calgary. Apparently, the U ...

This blog previous appeared on the Canadian Law of Work Forum . Alberta is proposing changes to its Employment Standard Code that would per...

This post originally appeared on the Parkland Institute blog on May 28, 2019. The second bill introduced by Alberta’s new United Conservat...

This post original appears on the Parkland Institute blog on April 3, 2019. (NOTE: On April 5, 2019, after this blog was originally publi...