Employers, ever-weary of the next judicial pronouncement on the enforceability of specific termination clauses in employment contracts, may mark a…

The Alberta Court of Queen’s bench recently reviewed the arbitrator’s decision in SMS Equipment, a case on which we have written before (see…

COVID-19 has caused unprecedented disruption in the economies all over the world. Employers who have had to lay off or…

Jeremy Schwartz discusses the disturbing trend of employees forum shopping in human rights matters, and a recent HRTO decision which…

Take It or Leave It: How NOT to Change Terms in an Employment Contract – Greg McGinnis and Jeremy Schwartz

In February, we wrote about a decision by the Federal Court of Appeal in Wilson v Atomic Energy Limited (see our earlier…

As we have noted in previous updates, the size of general damages awarded by human rights tribunals has trended sharply…

Employers are still wrestling with the consequences of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on the random drug and alcohol testing…

Jeff Murray discusses a recent Alberta Court of Queens Bench decision that overturned an arbitration panel’s finding that Suncor’s random…

To be enforceable, non-competition agreements must, as a general rule, be reasonable and unambiguous in terms of their geographic scope,…

A well-drafted contract protects not only the company but also its employees and senior personnel. In a recent decision, Richards v….

By: Allison Taylor Employers should be dismayed by the result in the recent case before the Ontario Court of Appeal…

Jeff Murray discusses a recent landmark contract decision from the Supreme Court of Canada

The Ontario Superior Court recently awarded an employee on leave due to disability, damages representing the salary he would have…

By: Jeremy Schwartz and Frank Portman We have written before on the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal in Johnstone…