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The Ontario Changing Workplaces Review has now issued its Final Report, and there's good news and bad news for franchisors.

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled this month that unions are entitled to collect personal home contact information for bargaining unit members from employers – even for employees who don’t join the union.

On March 28, 2014, two popular Canadian-based magazines, The Walrus and Toronto Life, brought their unpaid internship programs abruptly to an end...

On June 23, 2023, significant changes to the Canadian Competition Act (Act) came into effect.

The Act to give greater consideration to the needs of the population in the event of a strike or a lock-out will come into effect on November 30, 2025.

In our blog post on June 7, 2023, we outlined Ontario's new licensing regime for temporary help agencies ("THA") and recruiters. Since then, the Government of Ontario created this webpage to help guide...

The Ontario Government has passed the Working for Workers Act, 2021, which in addition to changes to other statutes, includes unique amendments to the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (the "ESA") addressing 1)...

On November 12, 2025, the government of British Columbia announced that effective immediately new requirements under the Employment Standards Regulation would prevent employers from asking employees for medical notes to support their sick leave.

On February 11, 2014, Finance Canada released its 54-page "Jobs Report" alongside the Federal Budget.

As early as 2022, Soham Parekh, a Silicon Valley engineer, worked at four technology start-up companies, all at the same time while physically located in India.

Recently, the HRTO held that an employer’s duty to accommodate does not require an employer to permit its store manager to tell customers to go away and come back later when another person could assist them with their purchases.

On May 27, 2019, the Government of Alberta introduced Bill 2: An Act to Make Alberta Open For Business (Bill 2), in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Many companies use the services of independent contractors to fill operational gaps within their business.

In Ontario the issue of employment status is analyzed by different criteria depending on the particular legislative context: for example, there are different tests under the Employment Standards Act, 2000...

Many workplaces today require employers and unions to work alongside each other to maintain positive labour relations.

The most important reason to have written agreements in place is to provide certainty regarding your expectations and to govern how you will interact during the relationship.

The firm's ongoing activities and strategies actively support the seven principles.