Labour & Employment in Alberta

Earlier this week, the Parkland Institute released a report that I contributed to, entitled Thumb on the scale: Alberta government interfere...

A week ago, a coalition of groups released a report addressing shortcomings in Canada’s existing Caregiver Program. This program brings for...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture revisits The Office to look at how employers handle drug use in the workplace. This skit...

Employers have an obligation to accommodate workers who are unwell or who have a temporary or permanent disability. This obligation is often...

Over the past few years, the Alberta Labour History Institute has been collecting the stories of Indigenous workers in Alberta . A number of...

Alternative Routes just published a new article entitled ‘ Bodies and boarders: Migrant women farmworkers and struggle for sexual and rep...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture looks at the 2005 film North Country . The film is a fictionalized account of Jenson v...

The recent spate of sexual harassment allegations has triggered a couple of articles examining the role of human-resource departments. Th...

Continuing with the workers’ compensation changes in Bill 30 ( An Act to Protect the Health and Well-being of Working Albertans ), today I...

In June of 2018, the federal government is expected to legalize pot. Many employers have, in the past, expressed concern about the safety ...

This summer, I ran across a very interesting article exploring how trans workers face greater precarity of employment. “ Gender Transition...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Streets of Philadelphia” by Bruce Springsteen. The song is from the soundtrack to ...

Today is the deadline for s ubmissions regarding Alberta's Labour Relations Code review . Much of the chatter to date has focused on ...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “This Land is Your Land” written by Woodie Guthrie. Most people are familiar with th...

I’m currently revising AU’s course on Human Rights, the Charter and Labour Relations . One of the recurring challenges that students identif...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Nothin’ to Die For” by Tim McGraw. On the surface, this song is about alcoholism a...

In Edmonton this Saturday, Migrante Alberta will be hosting a free screening of Migrant Dreams , a powerful feature documentary by multip...

There was an interesting appeal decision on a discrimination case out of Ontario last week. Vicky Strudwick became deaf late in life (po...

This week I'm at the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS) conference at the University of Calgary.  CAWLS is part o...

Today is equal pay day . The most compelling story on pay equity recently is the suit filed by members of the US National Women’s Soccer ...