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By Kelsey Orth
As you may know, the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (“ESA”) has specific provisions governing an employee’s minimum entitlements ...
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By Susan Crawford
In April 2012 a worker working for Fournier Excavation, in Quebec, was buried alive when the walls of the unsupported trench he was working in coll...
As rare as the use of that headline may be, we are cautiously optimistic that Premier Ford’s announcement yesterday that “Bill 148 will...
In English v Manulife Financial Corporation, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice considered whether an employee who has voluntarily resigned may ...
Here in Ontario, most employers are not strangers to the requirements of accessibility legislation; but, for some time federally regulated employer...
In a recent lower court decision in Ontario, the issue of frustration of contract was revisited. In the employment law context, a frustration...
By Mike MacLellan
In 2018 the former Liberal provincial government passed Bill-148 into law, changing an array of legislation on which workplaces were run. One...
In the recent case of Benjamin v. Cascades Canada ULC, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice held that an employee had failed to reasonably mitigat...
“Piercing the corporate veil” is the judicial act of imposing personal liability on otherwise immune corporate officers, directors, and...
Balancing an employee’s privacy rights with the employer’s ability to manage the workplace is an ongoing debate and continues to beco...
The Court of Appeal of Newfoundland and Labrador recently denied an employer’s appeal from a grievance arbitration decision holding that it w...
A recent interim decision from the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (the “Tribunal”) is an important caution for employers who distingu...
You have read in this space about recent cases where the language and enforceability of an executed Release has been called into question, includin...
In a recent decision, the British Colombia Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of a long-service employee following a series of confidentiality brea...
A recent labour arbitration decision has determined that the three paid floater days provided in a collective agreement did not constitute a greate...
Leading up to Canada Day, 2018 employers should have been preparing and reviewing their workplace policies to ensure that they would be in complian...
As we know, the Ontario Court of Appeal released a decision in 2016, Oudin v. Centre Francophone de Toronto, where a termination provisio...
In what would turn out to be the Liberal Government’s swan song, and amid widespread criticism from the business community, the controversial...
You may recall that on October 19, 2017 we reported on the Alberta Court of Appeal’s decision in Suncor Energy Inc. and Unifor Local 707A (&l...
This one is right up there with “two weeks’ notice” and “three strikes you’re out”. Some employers are ba...
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