Mayor Rob Ford is planning to privatize many police janitorial jobs in his ongoing campaign to contract out city services. …

The law has become increasingly sensitive to the need for the protection of personal information from public disclosure.  This is…

Responding to a request from Toronto’s City Council, Ontario has passed Bill 150 which bans strikes and lockouts by TTC…

Stir the Sleeping Giant: Remedial Certification Rears its Head in 2010! – Jeff Murray & Kelly McDermott

The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.  Not since H1N1 and SARS before that, have employers faced…

Canadian employers have been confronted with a veritable ocean of new government programs, which are designed to help weather the…

Jeremy Schwartz compares the results of two termination grievances arising out of racist and misogynistic tweets.

Frank Portman discusses the implications of the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision that the right to strike is protected…

A recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision serves to remind employers that the presumption of provincial jurisdiction over labour relations…

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

Confidentiality clauses are routinely inserted into settlement agreements when employers resolve legal disputes with workers.  We are often asked by…

The “day of application” test has been utilized by the Ontario Labour Relations Board (“Board”) in construction industry certification applications…

In OPSEU v. Ontario et. al., Ontario’s Divisional Court recently upheld an arbitrator’s ruling to dismiss 22 (grouped) grievances over fault-based…

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

Grievance arbitration is intended to be an efficient and cost-effective means to resolve workplace disputes without resort to costly litigation…