The Supreme Court navigated through a political minefield last Thursday when it pronounced on the constitutionality of several aspects of the federal employment insurance system in Confédération des syndicats nationaux v. Canada (Attorney General), 2008 SCC 68. The issues arising in the case have been the subject of much controversy, with the appellants claiming, among [...]

The rise of human rights obligations and, in particular, the emergence of the duty to accommodate, has become the single most significant workplace legal development over the past twenty years. What was once a one-way street of settled prerogatives belonging largely to the employer has become, after the human rights tipping point in the early [...]