Ryan Conlin and Frank Portman discuss the disturbing trend of increasingly large general damages awards in human rights litigation.

Since the early 1980s, plaintiffs have been precluded from bringing court actions solely predicated on suffering discrimination or harassment under…

Don’t Miss our 27th Annual Employers’ Conference: Labour & Employment Law Update 2013. Space is limited.  Register Early! Topics Include:…

The Boyce decision establishes that at least in some instances injured workers are free to attempt to concurrently pursue Human…

Employers are often unsure whether they have the right to ask for doctor’s notes (i.e. medical evidence) to justify employee…

Significant Changes to the Human Rights Tribunal’s Rules – Kelly McDermott and Jeremy Schwartz

Technological advancements frequently outpace the law’s ability to respond to the challenges they create. With the click of a button,…

Employers have made their plans; they’ve hunkered down; and they’ve sheltered in place. As we traverse the long and winding…

The Ontario Human Rights Code (the “Code”) was recently amended to add “gender identity or gender expression” as a ground of discrimination….

You are an employer that has just received a harassment complaint from an employee. The complaint is against a valued…

The legalization of marijuana for recreational use will have a profound impact on workplaces across the country.  This Webinar examines…

In April, we blogged that the Supreme Court of Canada had granted leave to appeal a decision regarding the random alcohol testing…

Among the amendments to Ontario’s human rights system in the past few years was the creation of a summary hearings…

Allison Taylor explains the unfavourable result of a recent judicial review decision in Alberta concerning family status discrimination.

In the wake of the Divisional Court’s decision in the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board v Fair, human rights damages have been…