Administrative Leave During Workplace Investigations: Ontario Arbitration Decision Provides Important Guidance on Investigative Suspensions The Ontario labour arbitration decision in Dryden Police Service Senior Officers’ Association v Dryden Police Services…

  Does a Workplace Investigator Examine or Cross-Examine a Witness? A workplace investigator interviews witnesses. The investigator does not conduct an examination-in-chief or a cross-examination in the courtroom sense. Nevertheless,…

  Workplace Investigations: When Failure to Inquire and Respond Becomes Part of the Wrong Hedrick v. Johnston Meier Insurance Agencies Ltd., 2026 BCSC 1250, is principally a wrongful dismissal decision…

The Investigator Must Consider Exculpatory Evidence The obligation of an employer to investigate allegations of serious misconduct fairly is well established. So too is the proposition that a seriously inadequate…

  Choice of Forum: Grievance Process vs Human Rights The right of a unionized employee to pursue the human rights process rather than the grievance and arbitration procedure is complicated…