Alberta Human Rights Tribunal Awards Employee $650,000 – Kelly McDermott

Workplace investigations have been an increasingly important topic for HR Professionals in the past few years.  Employers have a duty…

Even as the world grapples with variants and what appears to be the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, employers…

Ontario’s Divisional Court recently confirmed that employers have a right to ask employees to undergo an Independent Medical Examination (“IME”)…

Jessica Young discusses a recent record setting human rights damages award.

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

The AODA Employment Standard deadlines are not as far away as they may seem. The Employment Standard is one of…

We are proud to announce that the Law Society of Ontario recently designated Jeff Murray as a Certified Specialist in Labour Law….

B.C. Premier John Horgan announced earlier this month that the province will reinstate its Human Rights Commission. Like Ontario, B.C. currently has…

By: Ryan Conlin and Frank Portman Human Rights Tribunals across the country have been issuing damage awards which have raised…

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

Ryan Conlin and Frank Portman discuss the disturbing trend of increasingly large general damages awards in human rights litigation.

By: Jeremy Schwartz and Frank Portman We have written before on the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal in Johnstone…

The Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace – Prevention, promotion and guidance to staged implementation (the “Standard”) was released by the…

Obese Resident Awarded Preferred Parking Space – Jeremy D. Schwartz