Canada: COVID-19 Cases: The Consequences of Improperly Applying
Company Policies
More than five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic,
Canadian courts are still deciding employment termination cases
related to the enforcement of employers' vaccination policies.
In this article, we review a recent decision, Yee v WestJet, in
which the Alberta Court of Justice found that an employer
unreasonably applied its vaccination policy to an unvaccinated
worker who claimed a religious exemption, and thus that the
employer did not have just cause to terminate their employment.
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Canada: Ontario Introduces Bill 30, the Working For Workers
Seven Act, 2025
The Ontario government introduced Bill 30, the seventh statute
in its Working for Workers series, which, among other things, seeks
to amend a number of pieces of employment/workplace related
legislation. In this article, we highlight some of the significant
changes that this bill proposes to the various
