In 2020, employers were faced with unprecedented legal challenges brought on by the pandemic. Meanwhile, the courts and tribunals issued…

Frank Portman discusses a recent case in which the Ontario Court of Appeal reversed a trial decision and substituted a…

Date: Mar 04. 2022 The Omicron wave appears to be receding and there is cautious optimism that the worst of…

In a past Stringer Update, Releases Protect Employers from Human Rights Complaints, we emphasized the importance of having terminated employees sign…

Employers are often faced with the galling choice between asserting just cause for termination, and paying potentially large sums of…

The U.S. Labour Department has recently commenced an initiative to require employers to prepare and adopt compliance plans to ensure…

The recent admission of a large number of new health professions to those recognized in the Ontario Regulated Health Professions Act,…

Employers often avoid making significant, compliance-oriented changes for fear that employees will discover their rights have been violated for years…

By Jeremy Schwartz The Ontario Superior Court has ruled that an employer that implemented a layoff during the pandemic, which was “deemed”…

Our first quarterly, HR-Law Webinar was a great success, with over 150 registrants.  Thank you to those who joined us…

By: Jeremy D. Schwartz, Ryan J. Conlin and Erika M. Montisano Most of Ontario’s public health units are now well…

When no work is available in a particular field, dismissed employees may undertake reasonable mitigation efforts by pursuing re-training to…

When is an owner also an “employee”?  The Supreme Court of Canada recently rendered a decision on the question of…

Employers are often told by their lawyers that satisfying a Court that there is “just cause” to terminate an employee…