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Certain entities are required to disclose their efforts to combat forced labour and child labour within their supply chains by May 31, 2024.

At first glance, the case seems trivial: when booking a haircut online, customers at a hair salon had to choose between "service for men" or "service for women."

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a significant issue for employers has been the struggle to balance maintaining business operations with accommodating employees' childcare obligations.

On April 8, 2021, the BC Human Rights Tribunal (the "Tribunal") issued another screening decision providing guidance on human rights considerations and mandatory mask policies.

Back in April 2013, we reported on a Human Rights Tribunal (the Tribunal) decision where a summary hearing was granted and an application was dismissed as having no reasonable prospect of success.

The recent employment time theft case of Besse v. Reach CPA Inc., 2023 BCCRT 27, decided by the British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal ("CRT") has made headlines.

The amendments add "gender identity or expression" as prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act.

Family status is a protected ground under the Ontario Human Rights Code (the "Code") and employers have an obligation to provide reasonable accommodation in the circumstances. In its recent decision...

In a recent decision that reflects a trend in Quebec courts, the Commission des lésions professionnelles (CLP) has held that posts from the social networking site Facebook are admissible in evidence, based in part on its finding that all Facebook content is in the public domain.

By now, most Canadian mining companies ought to be aware of the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act (the Act) which came into force on January 1, 2024.

In the recent decision Yu v. Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (Tribunal) provided important clarification on the distinction between continuing discriminatory acts and the ongoing effects of past discrimination.

Québec's highest court heard the appeal of a Superior Court judgment dismissing an application for judicial review filed by the Canadian Union of Public Employees...

There are various aspects of operating a unionized business that are common to all such employers, chief among which are...

A few weeks ago, we reported on the recent decision in Baker v. Navistar Canada Inc., which confirmed that unionized employees are not able to bring employment claims to court.

In London District Catholic School Board v. Weilgosh, 2024 CanLII 20606 (ON SCDC), the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Divisional Court (Divisional Court) rejected an employer's...

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) recently found that the Canadian National Railway (CNR) discriminated against three employees by failing to accommodate their family situation.

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed another complaint relating to a refusal to wear a mask, this time in the context of religious belief and employment.