Recent Employment Law Changes In Ontario: The Working For Workers Act, 2021

On October 25, 2021, the Ontario government announced that it would be introducing Bill 27 or the Working for Workers Act, 2021, (the "Bill 27") which legislated a number of changes that impacted man provincially regulated employers. A summarized list of the proposed changes can be found on the government's website. In this article, we have summarized two important changes brought about by Bill 27.

NO MORE NON-COMPETE AGREEMENTS.SORT OF

While non-compete agreements are notoriously difficult to enforce (i.e. they are presumptively unenforceable), the government has made the decision to implement an outright ban on the use of non-competes for all provincially regulated employers. To most employment lawyers, this does not represent a drastic change. Non-compete agreements were extremely difficult to enforce, even prior to this outright ban, and they attracted a very high degree of judicial scrutiny. In most situations where they were implemented, they were, in