Losing your job & wrongful dismissal
Dealing with job loss can be challenging, whether you’ve quit or were fired or laid off. Understanding your rights is crucial.
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Last reviewed March 2024
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LSLAP Manual: Human Rights
Law Students’ Legal Advice Program (LSLAP)
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This chapter is used by law students handling cases at LSLAP’s legal clinics. It’s an overview of legislated human rights, the contexts in which those rights operate, and prohibited grounds of discrimination. The complaints process and available remedies are also addressed.
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Last reviewed September 2024
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Family Justice Centres
Government of British Columbia
Family Justice Centres provide services to British Columbians going through separation or divorce. Family Justice Counsellors help families with parenting arrangements, contact with a child, guardianship, and support issues. They provide short-term counselling, mediation, emergency and community referrals, and other free services.
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Last reviewed November 2024
LSLAP Manual: Family Law
Law Students’ Legal Advice Program (LSLAP)
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This chapter is from the manual used by law students handling cases at LSLAP’s legal clinics. It includes an overview of the family law process, as well as the law relating to marriage, common-law relationships, divorce, support, and adoption.
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Last reviewed September 2024
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Credit Counselling Society
Credit Counselling Society
Provides fee credit counselling appointments to discuss your personal finances with a certified credit counsellor. They will review your financial situation to help you make a plan to get out of debt.
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Last Reviewed
Last reviewed August 2024
Legal advocacy & clinic
Migrant Workers Centre
Pro bono (free) legal advocacy services to caregivers and other migrant workers. They help with immigration, employment issues, labour exploitation, and trafficking and human rights. They cover issues such as recovering lost wages, illegal recruitment fees, employment contracts, EI, immigration status, work permits, and temporary resident visas.
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Last Reviewed
Last reviewed July 2024
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Money, Debt & Consumer
Find information on money, debt, and consumer law published by non-profit organizations, the government, and legal professionals in BC. Each topic includes online guides and tools selected by our librarians.
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Last reviewed March 2024
Family law and poverty law advocate (Tri-City area)
SHARE Family and Community Services Society
Free legal family law and poverty law advocacy for low-income people. The family law advocate helps with family law matters like separation/divorce, guardianship, parenting time, support, and child protection. The poverty law advocate helps with applications and reviews for income assistance, PWD, CPP, and advocacy for landlord/tenant disputes.
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Last Reviewed
Last reviewed July 2024
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Wills, Estates & Planning
Find legal information on wills and future planning published by non-profit organizations, the government, and legal professionals in BC. Each topic includes online guides and tools selected by our librarians.
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Last reviewed March 2024
EI Benefits for Self-Employed People
Government of Canada
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Explains EI for people running their own business or controlling more than 40 percent of their corporation’s voting shares. It explains the types of special benefits, how to register for the self-employed program, what documents you need to submit to the CRA, and how to withdraw from the program.
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Last reviewed March 2024
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