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In an unusual development, a director of a medium-sized company has been personally found guilty and fined under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

All Saskatchewan employers will soon be required to have a violence policy and prevention plan in place.

Mental Health Week in Canada, taking place from May 6, 2024 – May 10, 2024, is just around the corner and the month of April is Autism Awareness Month. With Equity...

Canadian employers are increasingly required to balance their duty to maintain a safe working environment with the duty to accommodate the use of medical marijuana in the workplace.

ast week the Alberta Court of Appeal released its decision in R v. Kal Tire, 2020 ABCA 200. The case involved an incident at a commercial tire repair sho

In January 2021, the Ontario government announced that it was ramping up workplace health and safety inspections in an effort to combat COVID-19.

We are now beginning to see reported cases involving charges and subsequent fines laid against employers for failing to provide information, instruction and supervision to protect a worker from workplace violence.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has recently released its highly anticipated decision in the Blue Mountain Resorts case.

Recent amendments to the British Columbia Employment Standards Act (ESA) limit an employer's ability to request medical notes for short-term employee absences. Effective as of November 12, 2025, employers in B.C...

Canada's Regulation SOR/2023-78 (Regulation), which comes into force on December 15, 2023, will require employers to provide free menstrual...

Our Employment and labour year in review assembles a number of important cases, recent developments in legislation and cases to watch for in 2014, all of which could potentially have an impact on the management of your human resources.

In a recent case, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario found that the denial of services to a patient who was potentially exposed to Covid-19 did not amount to discrimination under the Ontario Human

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.

The recent decision in Weilgosh v. London District Catholic School Board, 2022 HRTO 1194 ("Weilgosh"), confirms that the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (the "Tribunal")...

The Federal Labour Minister announced that legislation will be introduced this fall to modernize the decades-old Canada Labour Code (the "Code").

On May 6, 2024, Bill 190, the Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190) was introduced in the Ontario legislature. If passed, Bill 190 will amend various...

An Ontario court has sentenced two corporate directors to jail time and fined the company $250,000 when a worker was killed after falling from an elevated platform tacked on to the forks of a forklift.