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We recently reported on the Ontario Superior Court's decision in Coutinho v. Ocular Health.

Increased usage and reliance on the Internet creates new challenges for both employees and an employer’s human resources department.

Ontario employees on temporary layoff (or on reduced hours) due to COVID-19 are currently deemed to be on Infectious Disease Emergency Leave ("IDEL") under the Employment Standards Act (the "ESA")

A recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the Ontario Superior Court's decision in Hoang v. Mann Engineering...

The Ontario Court of Appeal recently held that the duty to mitigate following dismissal does not apply when a dismissed employee’s contract contains an express notice of termination provision and is silent with respect to mitigation.

The law firm of a lawyer who assisted a hospital in "evaluating, mediating and resolving workplace conflicts between employees including allegations of harassment and workplace violence" has been ordered removed as lawyers of record for an employee who was suing the hospital.

In Doyle v. Zochem the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a $60,000.00 award for moral damages to an employee who was dismissed in bad faith. In addition, the employee was awarded ten (10) months' salary..

In Garda Security Screening Inc. v. IAM, District 140 (Shoker Grievance) [2020] O.L.A.A. No. 162 (Garda Grievance), a labour arbitrator dismissed a grievance pertaining to the for-cause dismissal...

In Bertsch v. Datastealth Inc., the Ontario Court of Appeal confirmed that a properly drafted termination clause will be enforced.

In Marshall v Mercantile Exchange Corporation, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted an employer's motion for a defence medical examination of a former...

"Privity of contract" is a common law tradition. The rights and obligations imposed by contracts are private – strangers to the contract generally have no entitlement to enforce such rights

We have been blogging a lot about how COVID-19 vaccine mandates have impacted workplace law, and now we can add one more context to our catalogue.

In the recent decision of Bertsch v. Datastealth Inc., the Ontario Superior Court of Justice upheld the enforceability of a termination clause in an employment agreement...

In a cautionary tale for employers, a jury in Windsor, Ontario awarded $1.4 million in damages to a former Wal-Mart employee.

Emploi et Développement social Canada (EDSC) a récemment émis une nouvelle directive à l'intention des employeurs visant leurs employés...

In 2016, Melissa Ojanen ("Ojanen"), an articling student at Acumen Law Corporation ("Acumen"), was terminated by her employer only four months after she began her articles.

The Court of Appeal allowed an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court that had ordered the employer to pay an amount of $1,086,767.