The law on addiction has evolved over the years in arbitral jurisprudence.  Earlier decisions treated illness as a mitigating factor…

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

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

Ontario’s Divisional Court has overturned a decision by the Ontario Labour Relations Board (the “OLRB”), in which the OLRB took…

Jurisdiction over employment in First Nations and aboriginal employers can be a complicated issue.  Until recently, different courts seemed to…

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has heard many cases brought by injured workers against the Workplace Safety and Insurance…

As we mentioned in our SBH Update, a significant change under Bill 160 is the removal of the Injury & Disease…

An Ontario Court has released a significant appeal decision which is the latest a line of cases to challenge the traditional view that it is…

The Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration Canada has made several announcements over the past couple weeks regarding proposed changes to…

In a decision that will come as little surprise to many labour practitioners, on both sides on the union-management spectrum,…

We blogged recently that there was ambiguity in the new amendments to Ontario’s Employment Standards Act, 2000 (“ESA”), which require employers to…

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

One of the most challenging issues confronting employers is how to ensure the safety of their employees when they are…

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

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