When is an owner also an “employee”?  The Supreme Court of Canada recently rendered a decision on the question of…

By: Ryan Conlin & Frank Portman A recent case from Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal is a stark reminder of how…

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, the Court dealt with the issue of awarding legal costs…

Allison Taylor discusses recent decisions from the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario suggesting a disturbing trend in that tribunal permitting…

Bill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, passed its third and final reading today. With Liberal and NDP MPPs…

By Jeremy Schwartz and Haadi Malik In 2020, the Federal Government introduced the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (“CERB”), which was…

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

The tragic deaths of four workers at a Toronto construction site on December 24, 2009 quickly became one of the…

The ongoing flare-up of the ebola virus is currently front page news.  Notwithstanding that as of the time of this…

After 19 years of protracted litigation, the Human Rights Tribunal of Alberta has now awarded a former employee of Mobil…

A recent Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario decision confirms that family status protection may require employers to accommodate employees’ sporadic…

  Ryan Conlin on Metron Ryan Conlin was recently interviewed concerning the recent, Superior Court decision sentencing Metron Construction project manager, Vadim Kazenelson, to three-and-a-half…

In a recent application to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Tribunal found that an employer facing an economic…

This is segment 3 of 5 from our Q3 webinar held on Thursday, October 10, “Breach of Confidentiality Clauses in Settlements”

In 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in British Columbia (Workers’ Compensation Board) v Figliola (“Figliola”). The Figliola decision addressed the…