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

By Jeremy Schwartz and Haadi Malik In April, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled in Coutinho v Ocular Health Centre…

By Landon Young Do employers have a general duty to act honestly and in good faith when dealing with their…

Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act: What Employers Need to Know Now – Jessica Young

Courts Refuse to Restrain Former Salesperson from Competing – Greg McGinnis and Jeremy Schwartz

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

Premier Kathleen Wynne announced this morning that the Ontario government would introduce new legislation aimed at increasing pay transparency as…

How do you know when an employee has quit her job? It may seem like a simple question, but the…

The government of Quebec has recently introduced new incentives for businesses to promote work-life balance, through its “work-family balance certification”…

Many employers find it necessary to assess new employees’ performance on the job before making a final determination about whether…

While employee theft is frequently grounds for termination, shades of grey do appear in the case law. In a recent…

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

One of the more deceptively complex questions in some cases can be: Who is the employer? Many businesses and organizations…

A recent decision, the Court of Appeal, Mady Development Corp. v. Rossetto, clarified an employee’s entitlement to bonuses who has breached…