This multi-part text offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the many aspects of employment and labour law in Canada, and the policies and forces that shape it. The Law of Work: Common Law and the Regulation of Work features numerous but concise chapters, clear explanations of concepts and definitions, and useful pedagogy throughout.

The book/ebook is also linked to Professor Doorey's own widely read and award-winning blog (LawofWork.ca). Readers will be able to refer to the website to find regularly updated content, links, and news related to the contents of each chapter, as well as the author's regular insightful blog posts, commentary, and additional discussion questions relating to current developments in this field.

• Meets HRPA standards for academic rigour and overall content coverage
• The author offers a conceptual grounding that links the four parts of the book through a systematic framework approach that explains how work law influences and is influenced by broader social, economic, political, and legal forces
• The text is closely tied to the author’s award-winning blog LawofWork.ca, which provides links updating the book’s coverage, and further commentary on key issues and news stories
• Chapter pedagogy includes boxes, definitions, summaries, discussion questions, updates, and external links
• Boxed features highlight important case decisions, prominent theories and thinkers, and key concepts or debates
• Concise chapters are designed to emphasize key concepts, laws, and issues, without excessive detail
• Provides clearly defined terms and a full glossary
• Very affordable price, and available as book or ebook

Part I: The Law of Work: Themes, Frameworks, and Perspectives

• Chapter 1: Canadian Work Law in a Nutshell
• Chapter 2: The Law of What? Employment, Self-Employment, and Everything in Between
• Chapter 3: A Framework for Analyzing the Law of Work
• Chapter 4: Key Perspectives That Shape the Law of Work

Part II: The Common Law Regime

Formation and Requirements of an Employment Contract

• Chapter 5: A Brief History of the Common Law Model of Employment (Claire Mummé)
• Chapter 6: The Job Recruitment and Hiring Process
• Chapter 7: The Requirements of an Employment Contract

The Employment Contract

• Chapter 8: Expressed and Ancillary Employment Contract Terms
• Chapter 9: Implied Employment Contract Terms
• Chapter 10: Modifying Employment Contracts

The End of an Employment Contract

• Chapter 11: Termination by Agreement of the Parties
• Chapter 12: Termination by "Frustration"
• Chapter 13: Termination by an Employer with "Reasonable Notice"
• Chapter 14: Summary Dismissal: Termination for Cause Without Notice
• Chapter 15: "You Forced Me to Quit!": The Special Case of Constructive Dismissal
• Chapter 16: Damages in Wrongful Dismissal Lawsuits
• Chapter 17: "I Quit!": Termination of the Employment Contract by the Employee

Tort Law and Work

• Chapter 18: Tort Law and the Employment Relationship

Part III: The Regulatory Regime

• Chapter 19: Mapping Labour Market Regulation
• Chapter 20: The Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Regulatory Standards

Employment Protection Regulation

• Chapter 21: Regulating Wages and Pay Equity
• Chapter 22: Regulating Working Time
• Chapter 23: Regulating the End of Employment Contracts
• Chapter 24: Regulating Worker Safety and Injuries (Bob Barnetson)
• Chapter 25: Mapping Human Rights at Work
• Chapter 26: Putting Human Rights Law to Work
• Chapter 27: What Are the Prohibited Grounds of Discrimination?
• Chapter 28: Bona Fide Occupational Requirements and Other Discrimination Defences
• Chapter 29: The Duty to Accommodate (Michael Lynk)
• Chapter 30: Regulating Unemployment

Broader Labour Market Regulation

• Chapter 31: The Right to Work: Immigration and Mobility Law (Sarah Marsden)
• Chapter 32: Intellectual Property Law and Work (May Cheng)
• Chapter 33: Privacy Law at Work (John Craig and Justine Lindner)
• Chapter 34: Pensions, Insolvencies, Bankruptcies, and the Worker (Simon Archer)
• Chapter 35: International Law, Trade Law, and Globalization

Additional module coming in 2016:
Part IV: The Collective Bargaining Regime

Click below for links to updated and archival content from David Doorey’s “Law of Work” blog, organized to reflect the chapters in the text.

Part One: The Law of Work: Themes, Frameworks, and Perspectives

Chapter 2: The Law of What? Employment, Self-Employment, and Everything in Between

• With Power Comes Responsibility, Tim Hortons Learns
• When Is A Salesperson An “Employee”?
• Is Your Employer Wrongfully Treating You As An Independent Contractor To Avoid Employment Standards?
• Employees, Independent Contractors, And Those In Between
• Is A ‘Stripper’ And Employee Or An Independent Contractor
• Court Rules “Dependent Contractors” Entitled to 26 Month’s Reasonable Notice
• Are “Volunteers” the New Unpaid Interns?: How Ontario’s Employment Standards Act Treats “Volunteer” Misclassification

Chapter 3: A Framework for Analyzing the Law of Work

• Are You Prepared To Work 10 Hour Days For $2.50 Per Hour?

Chapter 4: Key Perspectives That Shape the Law of Work

• Union Bashing And Human Rights In Context
• Canada’s Income Inequality Highest Ever Recorded
• Do Black Canadians Deserve To Earn Less Than White Canadians?
• Is Strengthening Union Rights Good Or Bad For Society? Don’t Ask The Economists
• Capitalism Needs Strong Government Regulation, Says Over 75% Of Canadians
• Skinny Women Earn More, Skinny Men Earn Less. Should The Law Care?
• Professor James Gross: Is HRM a Violation of Human Rights?

Part Two: The Common Law Regime

Formation and Requirements of an Employment Contract
Chapter 5: A Brief History of the Common Law Model of Employment

• Origins Of Duty To Give Reasonable Notice To Terminate An Employmen Contract

Chapter 6: The Job Recruitment and Hiring Process

• What Happens When a Job Applicant Lies During the Recruitment Process?
• Guest Blog: Gorsky On Anticpatory Breach Of Contract

Chapter 7: The Requirements of an Employment Contract

• Cuba v. Global Egg Corp: When Should A Release Signed By An Employee Bar A Lawsuit Against The Employer?

The Employment Contract
Chapter 8: Expressed and Ancillary Employment Contract Terms

• Does a Non-Competition Clause Survive a Wrongful Dismissal?
• Bowes v. Goss Power: No Duty To Mitigate When Contract Includes An Expressed Notice Term
• Does a Non-Competition Clause Survive a Wrongful Dismissal?

Chapter 9: Implied Employment Contract Terms

• Why “Blue Jays Fever” is Probably a Bad Idea
• Are [Nonunion] Employees Better Off Without A Written Employment Contract?
• The Emerging Implied Duty Of Decency
• Boucher v. Walmart: Court Of Appeal Confirms Implied Obligation Of Good Faith And Fair Dealing In Employment Contracts

Chapter 10: Modifying Employment Contracts

• How Can An Employer Amend An Employment Contract?
• Wronko v. Western Inventory: When Can An Employer Amend A Contract?
• An Employment Law Puzzle: On Condonation, Pay Cuts, Consideration, and Waivers
• Changing Terms Of Contract Without Employee Consent Proves Costly To Employer

The End of an Employment Contract
Chapter 11: Termination by Agreement of the Parties

• What Happens When an Employee Works Past the Contract’s End Date?
• Howard v. Benson Group: No Mitigation Required When Fixed Term Contract Terminated Early
• Is A Notice Of Termination Clause That Could Violate Employment Standards Void?

Chapter 12: Termination by “Frustration”

• Altman v. Steve’s Music Store: Employer Turfs Cancer Ridden Employee, and Pays for It

Chapter 13: Termination by an Employer with “Reasonable Notice”

• Muntean v. Enablence: Wrongful Dismissal Damages Without a Termination?
• Davies v. Fraser Collection: Is a Temporary Layoff of a Nonunion Employee a Constructive Dismissal?
• Does an Employer’s Financial Situation Influence Reasonable Notice Periods?
• Is it Time to Abolish “Reasonable Notice” in Employment Contracts?
• ‘Insubordinate&#rsquo; Articling Student Dismissed for Cause
• The Origins of the Requirement to Give “Reasonable Notice” to Terminate an Employment Contract
• Does an Employer’s Financial Situation Influence Reasonable Notice Periods?
• If An Employer Offers Inadequate Notice Of Termination, Must The Empoyee Work The Notice Period?
• Employer Wrongfully Dismisses Abusive, Harassing Manager

Chapter 14: Summary Dismissal: Termination for Cause Without Notice

• Why “Blue Jays Fever” is Probably a Bad Idea
• Is Drinking Wine at Lunch Grounds for Summary Dismissal?
• ‘Insubordinate’ Articling Student Dismissed for Cause
• Is Driving Your Employer’s Vehicle Drunk Cause For Summary Dismissal?
• Is Telling Your Boss To Bleep Off Cause For Dismissal?

Chapter 15: “You Forced Me to Quit!”: The Special Case of Constructive Dismissal

• Muntean v. Enablence: Wrongful Dismissal Damages Without a Termination?
• An Employment Law Puzzle: On Condonation, Pay Cuts, Consideration, And Waivers
• A Temporary Layoff Of Nonunion Employees Is Probably A Constructive Dismissal
• What Happens When An Employee Who Is Constructively Dismissed Keeps Working?
• The Supreme Court Revisists, Clarifies (Sort Of) Constructive Dismissal Law

Chapter 16: Damages in Wrongful Dismissal Lawsuits

• Howard v. Benson Group: No Mitigation Required When Fixed Term Contract Terminated Early
• Muntean v. Enablence: Wrongful Dismissal Damages Without a Termination?
• Mitigating Wrongful Dismissal Damages After Evans v. Teamsters
• Chevalier v. Active Tire: The Mystery of Mitigating in the Job From Which You’ve Just Been Fired
• “Unfair And Cruel” Dismissal Of Employee Still Not ‘Bad Faith Discharge’
• A Rare Case Of Punitive Damages In A Wrongful Dismissal Case

Chapter 17: “I Quit!”: Termination of the Employment Contract by the Employee

• “Give Me A Raise, or I Quit.” Is That a Quit is the Employer Declines the Raise?
• When Is A Resignation A Wrongful Dismissal?

Tort Law and Work
Chapter 18: Tort Law and the Employment Relationship

• Can a Negative Employment Reference be Defamation?
• Read Pleadings: Mol Sued For Failing To Inform Employee Of Contractual Rights
• Can A Law Firm Force Support Staff To Be Finger Scanned?
• Jones v. Tsige: New Tort Of ‘Intrusion Upon Seclusion’ Recognized By Court Of Appeal
• The Tort Of Inducing Breach Of Contract

Part Three: The Regulatory Regime

Chapter 19: Mapping Labour Market Regulation

• Look! This Post Refers To Llamas, Ratites, And Emus!
• When Did Discouraging Workers To File Esa Complaints Become Public Policy?
• The (Sometimes) Confusing Interplay Between Contractual And Statutory Employment Obligations
• Should We Imprison Employment Standards Violators?

Chapter 20: The Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Regulatory Standards

• Mandatory Retirement And Airline Pilots
• Guest Blog: Malhotra On Exclusions Of Disabled Workers From Employment Standards Protections

Employment Protection Regulation
Chapter 21: Regulating Wages and Pay Equity

• Ontario’s Latest Study on the Minimum Wage to Release Report Today: Some Background
• Women’s Situation Not Improving in Law Firms, But I (Still) Have a Plan
• Is it Time to Regulate “Maximum” Pay in Canada?
• Are You Prepared to Work 10 Hour Days for $2.50 Per Hour?
• Took 30 Years, But Canada Post Employees Win Pay Equity Complaint

Chapter 22: Regulating Working Time

• Scotia Bank Loses (Again) In Bid To Stop Employee Class Action Overtime Lawsuit
• My Employer Agrees I Worked Overtime, But I’m Still Not Entitled To OT Pay?

Chapter 23: Regulating the End of Employment Contracts

• Wilson v. Atomic Energy: Has the Court Read Out the Federal Reinstatement Power?
• Is It Time To Abolish “Reasonable Notice” In Employment Contracts?
• When Is Cursing At Your Employer “Willful Misconduct”?
• Can Employers Pay Out Notice Entitlement In Installments Rather Than A Lump Sum. Yes. And No. Maybe.

Chapter 24: Regulating Worker Safety and Injuries

• Are NHL Teams Breaking Law by Not Requiring Players to Wear Safety Masks?

Chapter 25: Mapping Human Rights at Work

• Smith v. Network Technical Services: Dismissal for Employee’s Refusal to Work Sundays Violates Human Rights Code
• Texts as Evidence in Human Rights Cases
• Can an Employee be Dismissed for Working Through Her Break?
• At Last The Human Rights Gets It Right! Employers Can’t Pay Disabled Workers $1 Per Hour

Chapter 26: Putting Human Rights Law to Work

• Does this CBC Ad Violate Human Rights, Labour Laws?
• Must a Job Applicant Disclose Their Religion During the Recruitment Process?
• Could Law Firms Refuse to Hire Graduates of a Religious-Based Law School?

Chapter 27: What Are the Prohibited Grounds of Discrimination?

• Is a Miscarriage a Disability?
• Should Employers Be Permitted to Discriminate on the Basis of Appearance?
• Moxies: Where ‘Uglies’ Need Not Apply?
• Can You Be Fired For Your Political Beliefs?
• Can Hooters Require Servers To Be “Slim And Fit”?
• CIBC Guilty Of Age Discrimination
• Home Depot Discriminates Against Turban Wearing Employee

Chapter 28: Bona Fide Occupational Requirements and Other Discrimination Defences

• What if a Male Employee Refuses to Work with Female Coworkers Due to His Religion?
• Starbucks And The Human Rights Code: What Does S. 23(2) Of The Code Mean?
• Mandatory Retirement And Airline Pilots

Chapter 29: The Duty to Accommodate

• Must a Job Applicant Disclose Their Religion During the Recruitment Process?
• Smith v. Network Technical Services: Dismissal for Employee’s Refusal to Work Sundays Violates Human Rights Code
• Guest Blog by Michael Lynk: York University Made Correct Call on Accommodation
• Guest Blog: Lynk On Hydro-Quebec And The Duty To Accommodate
• What If A Male Employee Refuses To Work With A Female Coworker Due To His Religion?

Chapter 30: Regulating Unemployment

• Should Parents of Twins Be Entitled to Full EI Benefits for Each Child?
• Debates About The Employment Insurance Model

Broader Labour Market Regulation
Chapter 31: The Right to Work: Immigration and Mobility Law

• Time for Transparency on the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
• The Conservative Temporary Foreign Labour Program Fiasco
• Guest Blog: Dias-Abey on Reforms to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program

Chapter 32: Intellectual Property Law and Work

• WalMart Sues UFCW for Using Its Logo and Slogans

Chapter 33: Privacy Law at Work

• Is Making Disgusting Comments on Facebook Cause for Dismissal from Your Job?
• Jones v. Tsige: New Tort Of ‘Intrusion Upon Seclusion’ Recognized By Court Of Appeal
• No Tort Of Privacy At Work. But Is There A Contractual Right To Privacy?

Chapter 34: Pensions, Insolvencies, Bankruptcies, and the Worker

• Plant Closing, Bankruptcies, and Workers’ Claims
• More on the Closure of Progressive Moulded Products
• Archer On Pensions And Bankruptcies

Chapter 35: International Law, Trade Law, and Globalization

• Caterpillar Announces its Closing Progress Rail Plant in London
• CAW Head Ken Lewenza Video on Caterpillar’s Decision to Fire 450 Canadians
• A Letter From Canada To Volkswagen: Our Labor Laws Are A Better Fit For You
• Unite-Here Win Good Settlement… But Another Garment Factory Is Gone

Errata: The Law of Work: Common Law and the Regulation of Work