Labour & Employment in Alberta

Yesterday, Athabasca University and the government finally agreed upon a new Investment Management Agreement (IMA). This IMA purports to add...

Back in September, I blogged about how Alberta’s OHS inspectors seemed unwilling to address uncontrolled aerosol hazards in a workplace. My...

Earlier this summer, I wrote about a fight between Athabasca University (on the one hand) and the government and residents of the town of A...

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...

I’m presently coding data for a research project examining grievance arbitrations in Alberta. There are some 1000+ arbitration decisions (20...

Recently, I blogged about how the UCP’s changes to joint health and safety committees has basically rendered them ineffective. I used the e...

Students are typically taught research methods as a very formal process. Basically, the literature yields hypotheses that we then test to co...