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Employment law 2020 BCSC 135

A-Teck Appraisals Ltd. v. Constandinou

The court stayed a wrongful dismissal counterclaim and allowed arbitration to proceed under the employment contract, holding the arbitration clause was enforceable.

  • Wrongful dismissal
  • Arbitration clause enforceability
  • Stay of proceedings
  • Non-competition/non-solicitation
  • Employment standards act enforcement
  • Wrongful-dismissal
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Employment law 2019 BCCA 131

Cariboo Gur Sikh Temple Society (1979) v. British Columbia

Cariboo Gur Sikh Temple Society (1979) v. British Columbia (Employment Standards Tribunal)

The Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal in an employment standards judicial review, holding the Tribunal’s decisions were not procedurally unfair or patently unreasonable.

  • Employment standards act enforcement
  • Procedural fairness
  • Standard of review (patent unreasonableness)
  • Privative clause
  • Disclosure obligations
  • Procedural-fairness
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Administrative law 2018 BCCA 233

McMillan v. British Columbia

McMillan v. British Columbia (Employment Standards)

The Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal seeking immediate payment of funds held by the Director of Employment Standards, holding the proceeding was improperly brought.

  • Judicial review
  • Employment standards act enforcement
  • Trust funds
  • Stay/suspension of orders
  • Filing of tribunal awards
  • Judicial-review
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Employment law 2017 BCSC 2004

Hall v. Trueblue, DBA Labour Ready

The court struck a self-represented plaintiff’s civil claim for failing to plead material facts and for abusing process by duplicating statutory and human-rights remedies.

  • Wrongful dismissal
  • Pleadings and striking claim
  • Abuse of process
  • Exclusive tribunal jurisdiction
  • Double recovery
  • Employment standards act enforcement
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Employment law 2011 BCSC 669

Giza v. Sechelt School Bus Service Ltd. and Gould

Court found employer gave working notice rather than repudiated contract; plaintiff abandoned work immediately and did not establish constructive dismissal or objective intolerability; plaintiff's statutory holiday claims are governed exclusively by ESA and limited to 6 months prior to complaint and were satisfied; no evidence of bad faith or deceit sufficient to award damages for manner of dismissal or punitive damages; accordingly all claims dismissed and plaintiff ordered to pay $500 costs to defendants.

  • Wrongful dismissal
  • Constructive dismissal
  • Notice period
  • Statutory holiday pay
  • Punitive damages
  • Employment standards act enforcement
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