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Many workplaces today require employers and unions to work alongside each other to maintain positive labour relations. In 2012, approximately 31.5...
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A recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has reinforced an employer’s ability to re-organize work flow and adjust employee ...
By Susan Crawford
Dismissing an employee is never an easy exercise for an employer and all too often employers dismiss employees without fully appreciating the oblig...
On December 24, 2009, six workers entered a faulty swing stage to repair balconies on the 13th floor of an apartment building in Toronto. Onl...
By Mike MacLellan
Our readers probably already know that when a unionized employee is unjustly discharged from their employment, the presumptive remedy from an arbit...
By Kelsey Orth
In a case argued by Susan Crawford of CCPartners, Judge S.A.Q. Akhtar upheld the contractual provisions of an employment agreement that prohibited ...
Cell phones are one of the most common distractions for drivers. Statistics show that drivers engaged in text messaging are up to 23 times more lik...
This is the question that K.L. v. 1163957799 Quebec Inc., 2015 ONSC 2417 hopes to answer. In the summer of 2013 Calypso Theme Park (“Cal...
As many of you may be aware, the Provincial Government is considering whether changes to the Employment Standards Act (“ESA”) and the O...
By now we all know that an employer in Ontario has a duty to accommodate an employee with a disability, so long as the accommodation does not cause...
When charged with an Occupational Health and Safety Act violation, you need to be provided with complete Crown disclosure before you can decide whe...
In Donaldson v Western Grain By-Products Storage Ltd. 2015 FCA 62, the Federal Court of Appeal ruled that it is reasonable to request a more specif...
A number of our Firm’s recent blogs have painted a picture of what consequences arise when an employer is found to have violated the Human Ri...
On November 4, 2014, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal (“Tribunal”) found that a restaurant owner discriminated against a customer (CC)...
Over the last several years, termination provisions have been set aside by Courts for a number of reasons as employers have been held to exacting s...
By Rob Boswell
Following consultation processes led by Harry Arthurs and Doug Stanley over the past few years, earlier this week the WSIB has released a set of te...
An administrative suspension can be an effective tool for an employer to invoke when it needs to temporarily remove an employee from the workplace....
Under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) the Chief Prevention Officer (CPO) has the authority to establish standards for training progra...
In Ontario, all employers must take steps to prevent and react to harassment and violence in the workplace. Part III.0.1 of the Occupational Health...
A recent guilty plea by an employer after an agency supplied temporary worker died on the job is a sobering reminder of just how broad the definiti...
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