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	<title>Northern Exposure</title>
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	<description>Northern Exposure: Employment law for U.S. companies with employees in Canada: By attorneys at Fasken Martineau law firm</description>
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		<title>Overtime Class Action Claims: The Second Wave?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sara Parchello
Overtime class actions in Canada are not dead. If you thought that last year’s court decision refusing to certify the class action against one of Canada’s largest banks, CIBC, meant the death of such lawsuits in Canada, think again.

These lawsuits where one or several employees act as a “representative plaintiff” to start a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/northernexposure/2010/03/15/overtime-class-action-claims-the-second-wave/</link>
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		<title>Notice Periods for Older Employees – 69-Year-Old Gets 24 Months</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dominique Launay
In Quebec, an employer may fire an employee with “reasonable notice” of termination or pay in lieu of notice unless there’s a contract dealing with termination or there’s “just cause” for dismissal (and save for specific statutory regimes). Like the rest of Canada, reasonable notice is determined on a case-by-case basis taking into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/northernexposure/2010/03/08/notice-periods-for-older-employees-69-year-old-gets-24-months/</link>
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		<title>Junior Employees Owe Duty of Good Faith, Too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stephen Acker and Ariel Thomas

Canadian employment law imposes a number of legal duties on employers and employees. One of the key duties is the duty of good faith. The duty of good faith requires employers and employees to act in each other’s best interests. It begins when employment does and can last until after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/northernexposure/2010/03/01/junior_employees_owe_duty_of_good_faith/</link>
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		<title>How Canadian Arbitrators View Video Surveillance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Derek Knoechel
Canadian arbitrators have been dealing with the issue of how to deal with video surveillance of employees for over two decades. Early decisions dealt with off-site surveillance of employees suspected of faking or exaggerating illnesses. But countless battles have since been waged over the use of video surveillance cameras in and around the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/northernexposure/2010/02/22/how-canadian-arbitrators-view-video-surveillance/</link>
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		<title>Vancouver 2010: Are You Prepared?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Katie Clayton and Farrah Sunderani

With the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games having just begun, there will be several implications on the workplace. Past Olympic cities have reported high levels of absenteeism – both approved and unapproved – for employees wishing to attend the events, partake in the activities, or volunteer.
Employers outside Vancouver [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/northernexposure/2010/02/15/vancouver-2010-are-you-prepared/</link>
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		<title>What Happens When Child Care and Work Conflict – More Guidance for Employers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ralph Nero and Ida Martin

As we reported last week, decision makers across Canada are struggling with the meaning of discrimination on the basis of family status. Last week we looked at a Human Rights Tribunal decision out of British Columbia. This week we look at a recent Ontario arbitration decision, Re Power Stream Inc. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/northernexposure/2010/02/08/what-happens-when-child-care-and-work-conflict-more-guidance-for-employers/</link>
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		<title>To What Extent Must Employees’ Family Obligations Be Accommodated?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dominique Launay 
Your employee is a single parent. He has to drop his children off at school each morning. They can’t be dropped off earlier than 9 a.m. He has to be back at the school by 5 p.m. to pick them up from their after-school care. He has no family to assist him. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/northernexposure/2010/02/01/to-what-extent-must-employees-family-obligations-be-accommodated/</link>
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		<title>When Must Individual Contractors Receive Reasonable Notice?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Donna Gallant
A recent appeal court decision demonstrates once again that defining work relationships is far from an exact science. Somewhere on the spectrum between employees and independent contractors, we have seen the emergence of “dependent contractors.” What hasn’t been entirely clear is how one determines “dependent contractor” status.  Nor what that status means in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/northernexposure/2010/01/25/when-must-individual-contractors-receive-reasonable-notice/</link>
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		<title>Mandatory Retirement Being Retired across Canada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mandatory retirement has a long and storied history as part of the Canadian labor system. As we enter 2010, it appears that a new chapter is being written, one in which mandatory retirement is the exception rather than the norm.

In Canada, mandatory retirement developed along with the introduction of private and public pension plans. Public [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/northernexposure/2010/01/18/mandatory-retirement-being-retired-across-canada/</link>
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		<title>Ontario Adds to Broad Canadian Harassment/Violence Laws</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alix Herber
Canada’s two largest provinces &#8212; Ontario and Quebec &#8212; now have laws requiring employers to seek to provide workplaces free of “harassment.” No longer limited to human rights-related harassment, the term is broadly defined in these laws. Further, Ontario’s new law extends beyond harassment. It, like the federal law, also will require antiviolence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/northernexposure/2010/01/11/new-laws-regarding-workplace-harassment-violence-in-ontario-and-quebec/</link>
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