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This was a proposed representative action on behalf of refugees from the State of Eritrea alleging that the defendant Nevsun Resources Ltd., a British Columbia company, used forced labour, a form of slavery, in building an Eritrean mine. The plaintiffs brought the action under customary international law on their own behalf and as a representative

The Supreme Court of Canada recently overturned a controversial decision of the Federal Court of Appeal (Koskie Minsky LLP Employment Blog February 9, 2015). Specifically, the Federal Court of Appeal held that “Unjust Dismissal” provisions pursuant to sections 240 to 246 of the Canada Labour Code, R.S.C. 1985, c.L-2 (the “Code“) only provided non-unionized federally