Employment Law Conference - 2013

This book is essential for: employment lawyers and in-house counsel.

Current to: May 2013

Comprehensive and compelling
Employment Law is constantly developing—cases, new issues, and new strategies. In this publication you will receive a comprehensive understanding of the key and emerging issues. Topics include: mental disorder claims and the Workers Compensation Act, arbitration clauses in employment contracts, common law and employment standards claims, employment issues in the BC public sector, reinstatement of employees in non-union settings, class actions, aggravated and punitive damages, mitigation and contractual severance clauses, drug and alcohol testing, potential claims against departing employees, jury trials

CONTENTS 

• mental disorder claims and the Workers Comp Act: the Bill 14 amendments to the Workers Compensation Act and related issues
• arbitration clauses in employment contracts
• common law and employment standards claims - two roads: the interface between common law and employment standards claims in British Columbia
• employment issues in the BC public sector: part 3.1 of the Public Sector Employers Act and the employment termination standards regulation
• reinstatement of employees in non-union settings: judicial rationale for refusing reinstatement, reinstatement at common law, statutory bases for reinstatement, the case for reinstatement
• class actions: class proceedings in Canada, class proceedings in the employment context, recent cases in BC, recent cases in Ontario, jurisdictional issues regarding arbitration
• aggravated and punitive damages and related legal issues
• mitigation and contractual severance clauses: revisiting the employee's mitigation duty where contractual severance clauses exist
• drug and alcohol testing: recent developments and the law
• potential claims against departing employees without written agreements
• jury trials for employment cases: a procedural primer; instructing a jury on the scope of punitive damages