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By Susan Crawford
In what is being hailed throughout the labour community as a “game changing” decision, the Federal Court recently broke with a 30...
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Yohann Johnson, an eight-year employee of General Motors of Canada Limited (“GM”) was a production supervisor in the body shop of GM&rs...
Facts Ashley McKenna began working for the sports bar Local Heroes Stittsville in March of 2011. In July of 2011 Ms. McKenna became pregnant....
Currently our Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) sets out the requirements for protecting workers from potentially hazardous ...
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (the “HRTO” or “Tribunal”) does not often order the reinstatement of employees. Howeve...
The recent arbitral decision in Hamilton Health Sciences v. Ontario Nurses’ Association, 2013 CanLII 36061 (ON LA) deals with the limits of r...
By Mike MacLellan
When an employer is facing tough financial times they may decide to implement temporary layoffs of some employees until the business can get back o...
By Kelsey Orth
Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Evans v. Teamsters Local Union Local No. 31, the law of constructive dismissal in Canada has, in most c...
On March 22, 2012 we blogged about the Divisional Court’s decision in Peel Law Association v. Pieters, where the Divisional Court overturned ...
By Rob Boswell
This morning the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in the matter of Communications, Energy and Paper Union of Canada, Local 30 v Irving...
Lodovico Cavan v. Royal Bank of Canada demonstrates the benefit of using appropriately drafted employment policies and consistently applied pr...
We often hear clients talk about their “probationary employees”. More times than not, however, we have to deliver the bad news th...
An Ontario court recently overturned a labour arbitration award that reinstated an employee who sexually harassed two co-workers. The employee (&ld...
One element of unionized employment which distinguishes it from typical individual employment is that the normal remedy for a union member who is u...
In recent years the doctrine of constructive dismissal – a type of wrongful dismissal whereby the employee claims the employer has fundamenta...
In a previous post we advised provincial employers how to navigate return-to-work issues under the Employment Standards Act following maternity/par...
There are two important updates on Occupational Health and Safety for this year: 1) Safety Blitz Schedule ...
In the recent arbitration decision of Tonolli Canada Limited v. United Steelworkers, and its Local 9042, Arbitrator G. T. Surdykowski upheld the ju...
As trusted advisors to employers, we are often called upon when a non-union employee is about to be dismissed without cause to give advice on what ...
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently held that when it comes to picketing-induced delays, “some inconvenience to the employer is pe...
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