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By Mike MacLellan
Let's say you've just dispatched your crew for the morning and someone you've never met comes up to you, calls you by name, hands you a package and...
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By Kelsey Orth
No doubt you heard, read or were emailed about the horrific incident of workplace violence that took place in Virginia just two weeks ago. Tr...
A recent Ontario arbitration decision has illustrated that a serious workplace safety incident can lead to termination. While the appropriateness o...
As many employers may have experienced during labour unrest and collective bargaining negotiations, tensions between management and union represent...
In Ontario more than 550,000 people work at hospitals, long-term care homes and other health care workplaces. The Ontario government reports ...
The Ontario Liberal Government has begun to unveil new details of the Ontario Registered Pension Plan (“ORPP”) – a plan that may ...
One of the benefits to employers who hire independent contractors to assist in the workplace is that there is no obligation to provide reasonable n...
Since the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Evans v. Teamsters, much has been made about the issue of mitigation. That decision, a positive on...
In August of 2013 CCP wrote this article about Jan Wong, a long-time writer for the Globe and Mail, who was ordered to repay the money she received...
Many workplaces today require employers and unions to work alongside each other to maintain positive labour relations. In 2012, approximately 31.5...
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...
Our readers probably already know that when a unionized employee is unjustly discharged from their employment, the presumptive remedy from an arbit...
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...
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