A recent decision of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, Sabbah v. University of Ottawa, demonstrates how mistakes in presenting new employment contracts…

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

Taking the Panic out of Pandemic Planning – Ryan Conacher

Ryan Conlin and Jeremy Schwartz discuss Bill 146 and the potential impact on employers.

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

By: Jeremy Schwartz and Frank Portman A recent French language decision from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice indicates that…

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

In a recent decision, the Alberta Court of Appeal strongly affirmed employers’ right to terminate employees without cause, and without…

You are an employer that has just received a harassment complaint from an employee. The complaint is against a valued…

In Thompson v. 1552754 Ontario Inc., the applicant was employed as a counter person at the respondent’s coffee shop. The applicant…

Employers must accommodate employees with disabilities to the point of undue hardship under the Ontario Human Rights Code. The accommodation of…

Canadian employees are presumptively entitled to “reasonable notice” of termination.  Although this entitlement can be limited to some extent by…

At times, employers despair at the perceived narrowing of the requirements of just cause for termination. With many adjudicators focused on…

Contracts of all kinds often fall apart over relatively minor details, despite the parties’ agreement on the majority of issues. …

By: Landon Young There have been a number of cases in recent years considering whether dismissed employees are entitled to awards…