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By Mike MacLellan
Recent case law has reflected changing attitudes toward and evolving understanding of drug dependence in the workplace. For examples, drug de...
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By Kelsey Orth
Ever since the Supreme Court’s ruling in the now-famous (at least in employment circles) Evans v. Teamsters case, employers have had a new &l...
In any workplace, it is possible, if not likely, that people will not always get along. When employee incidents happen and complaints are made, it ...
As most employers are already aware, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (“AODA”) was passed in 2005 and br...
By now we all know that Courts are reluctant to enforce provisions in employment contracts that seek to limit the amount of termination notice prov...
Can an employer terminate an employee with just cause for a single incident which breaches the trust fundamental to an employment relationship? The...
Let's say you've just dispatched your crew for the morning and someone you've never met comes up to you, calls you by name, hands you a package and...
No doubt you heard, read or were emailed about the horrific incident of workplace violence that took place in Virginia just two weeks ago. Tr...
A recent Ontario arbitration decision has illustrated that a serious workplace safety incident can lead to termination. While the appropriateness o...
As many employers may have experienced during labour unrest and collective bargaining negotiations, tensions between management and union represent...
In Ontario more than 550,000 people work at hospitals, long-term care homes and other health care workplaces. The Ontario government reports ...
The Ontario Liberal Government has begun to unveil new details of the Ontario Registered Pension Plan (“ORPP”) – a plan that may ...
One of the benefits to employers who hire independent contractors to assist in the workplace is that there is no obligation to provide reasonable n...
Since the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Evans v. Teamsters, much has been made about the issue of mitigation. That decision, a positive on...
In August of 2013 CCP wrote this article about Jan Wong, a long-time writer for the Globe and Mail, who was ordered to repay the money she received...
Many workplaces today require employers and unions to work alongside each other to maintain positive labour relations. In 2012, approximately 31.5...
A recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has reinforced an employer’s ability to re-organize work flow and adjust employee ...
By Susan Crawford
Dismissing an employee is never an easy exercise for an employer and all too often employers dismiss employees without fully appreciating the oblig...
On December 24, 2009, six workers entered a faulty swing stage to repair balconies on the 13th floor of an apartment building in Toronto. Onl...
Our readers probably already know that when a unionized employee is unjustly discharged from their employment, the presumptive remedy from an arbit...
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