David J. Doorey🇨🇦 💙
@TheLawofWork
Law Prof. Work Law & Labor Relations @YorkUniversity @OsgoodeNews @LSELaw @CLJEHarvard @thelawofwork.bsky.social http://lawofwork.ca
Folks, I’m migrating off this cesspool of an App. I’ll keep this account live & use it for occasional announcements, but that’s it. You can find me at BlueSky: @thelawofwork.bsky.social Please join me on the other side and invite your friends!!

SHOULD the employees be fired for their romantic relationship is an HR question. I’m more interested in the legal question of whether employers should be PERMITTED to fire employees for such conduct, Should employers be required to have JUST CAUSE? thestar.com/opinion/contri…
New Post, in which I reflect on an old 1990s case I argued involving Shopping Channel employees and ask: What if @Uber is a federally regulated business? Substack: thelawofwork.substack.com/p/what-if-uber… LawofWorkBlog: lawofwork.ca/what-if-uber-i…
Two crazy things in this story: 1. That the U.S. government would give a deal to Epstein that also shields his accomplices in child abuse from prosecution. 2. Ghislaine’s lawyers claiming that Trump understands the importance of standing by a deal! LOL! share.google/2jlDDVPDeJb3iw…
This is the best ever true news BBC ever made about Israel, 4 minutes but every minute is extremely important
This could make for an interesting arbitration. Can NHL refuse to reinstate the players acquitted of sexual assault based on a morality-harm-to-reputation argument: maybe not criminal but still horrible behaviour unbecoming of an NHL player? tsn.ca/nhl/nhl-says-f…
I have never felt so shaken. Children are dying of hunger. Falling one after another, like petals of a dying flower. Under our watch. How do you sleep, Presidents, Foreign Ministers, political leaders, diplomats, civil servants - doing nothing to stop Israel’s starvation…
The sheer intellectual collapse you have to experience to be faced with 122 international aid organisations telling you the same thing... ISRAEL IS STARVING GAZANS... only to decide they are ALL lying & that actually Benjamin Netanyahu, on trial for fraud, is telling the truth.
Canada has been on notice, since the ICJ’s order in January 2024, that it—along with all states—was under a positive obligation to take all reasonable measures to prevent genocide in Gaza. Over 1.5 years later, Canada continues to fail to take meaningful action.
The suffering of civilians in Gaza is horrific. Together with 25 other partners, Canada‘s message is clear: the war in Gaza must end now. We call for an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages and a full resumption of humanitarian aid, including food. Please see our…
All the conservative gods—Hayek, Freidman, Reagan, Thatcher—believed that interventionist, activist states were the greatest threat to freedom. Trump’s Republicans are closer in ideology to the KKK than these folks. Government controls everything. thestar.com/news/world/uni…
Perspective - Vote No (Special Edition - Summer 2025) cupw.ca/en/campaign/re… #SupportCUPW #VoteNo #canlab #cdnpoli @CanadianLabour
Advanced Labour Law Question: Next year @TempoBasketball join @WNBA. Currently a collective agreement bargained under U.S. labor law governs employment. Does that CA automatically govern Ontario-based Tempo employees? If so, how? tsn.ca/wnba-all-stars…
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.
Seriously, if you are working in this very difficult, potentially dangerous, sometimes exploitive industry, I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t want to be protected by collective bargaining.
Today’s news story from @kim_siever Airdrie care home workers file to unionize albertaworker.ca/news/airdrie-c…
Here’s the British Columbia Labour Relations Board decision ruling that: - @amazon violated labor laws by inflating employee numbers & threatening workers to discourage unionization; and - the proper remedy is to certify the union. share.google/lEO8XWAqTQmbuV…
Labour Board rules that @canadapostcorp can include in the “final offer” that workers are being forced by Liberals to vote on the withdrawal of a pile of outstanding grievances. This could actually work against Canada Post. We’ll see how vote goes. cupw.ca/en/cirb-rules-…
A month after Liberals order vote of employees on #CanadaPost’s last proposal, CIRB has finally set dates for the vote. A “yes” vote ends labour dispute. A ‘no’ vote means parties remain in legal strike/lockout position (until arbitration is imposed). thestar.com/business/worke…
Interesting BCLRB decision upheld by Court of Appeal: Air Canada’s direction to caterer to load enough food at non-BC airports for inbound & outbound flights out of Vancouver unlawfully avoided BC’s anti-scab worker law. Caters on strike in Vancouver. share.google/3LHKOHfzFmkk5f…
Only a matter of time before all airline cabin crew realize they are better off with collective bargaining than trying to deal with airlines individually. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/porter-ai…
And universities. Consistent with contemporary conservative attacks on education more generally. Very weird time to be anti-education, but here we are.
Doug Ford's fiscal time bomb is devastating Ontario's colleges thestar.com/politics/polit… via @torontostar
Man, Toronto in the summer is something else. I love this city.