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By Mike MacLellan
If the Ministry of Labour gives you an Order, you had better comply. That’s the message employers should be taking from the example of Steven...
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By Kelsey Orth
How to Avoid Receiving your "Season's Greetings" on Legal Paper Everyone loves the office holiday party – a chance to relax and share some ti...
Accommodating an employee with medical limitations can be a difficult proposition for employers. On one hand, an employer has a legal obligat...
By Susan Crawford
The recent decision in Mykki Cavic v. Costco Wholesale Canada Limited confirms that serious breaches of trust, despite long service, will justify t...
In our April 19, 2011 blog we addressed the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision in R. v. Cole, a decision which provided some guidelines to em...
In a recent post ,we reported on the largest punitive damages award ever handed down by a jury in Canadian employment law history in Higginson v. B...
It should be plain and obvious that an employer has the right to manage its business as it sees fit. That includes managing its employees as it se...
We have previously written about the dangers of mishandling employee benefits in termination situations [view BLOG]. However, a rec...
On June 20, 2012 the Ontario Court of Justice rendered a decision that now defines what constitutes an offence under section 78.1 of Ontario’...
????A British Columbia jury has awarded a former 34 year employee over $800,000 in damages for wrongful dismissal damages. Included in this a...
The Divisional Court has released the much anticipated decision of Canadian Union of Public Employees (“CUPE”), Local 1999 v. Lakeridge...
The Superior Court of Justice has recently raised the standard to which employers are held when providing departing employees with a termination pa...
It is well established in Ontario that employment agreements are assumed to include a clause providing for reasonable notice to an employee prior t...
Employers are often faced with difficulty demonstrating sufficient justification amounting to cause for dismissal. However, in a recent case an emp...
Most employers are well aware of the importance and value of employment contracts, particularly for the purpose of limiting the obligation to provi...
The Ontario Court of Appeal decision in GasTOPS Ltd. v. Forsyth and the trial decision that preceded it have found that “key employees”...
Employers have long grappled with the issue of how to properly discipline a long-service employee for an apparently isolated, but severe, incident ...
An Ontario judge recently found that an employee was not dismissed for cause after he struck a co-worker in violation of the employer’s workp...
On November 7, 2011, the Ontario Divisional Court considered the issue of whether an employer is able to argue frustration of contract when an empl...
You may recall CCP reporting on a decision of the Superior Court of Justice last year that awarded a wrongfully dismissed employee compensation for...
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