A description of the common law duty of loyalty as applied by courts, compared to the duty as construed by arbitrators under CBAs. The employee conduct reviewed includes competition with…

Employment law in Canada (both judicial and arbitral) imposes standards of loyalty that are stricter than those in the United States. This article describes those duties of good faith and…

Professor Goldman asserts that a duty of loyalty should be invoked only when those seeking loyalty have earned their claim to it: where the employee has violated a specific provision…