Approaching the one-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic, cases that deal with the termination of employees for reasons related to the pandemic are continuing to work their way through the courts...

Municipal elections across Ontario are scheduled to take place on October 24, 2022. Employers are obligated to provide their employees with sufficient time off work to vote.

In Canada Post Corporation and CUPW (Grievance re: CUPW/STTP National Mandatory Vaccination Practice) (unreported, 28 April 2022), Arbitrator Jolliffe upheld Canada Post Corporation's ("CPC")...

In light of the rising number of COVID-19 cases, on November 20, 2020, the Ontario government announced that certain provincial regions would be moved into different coloured zones

Arbitrator found that the fact that an employee reported to work smelling of alcohol did not provide the employer with reasonable cause to test that employee for drugs.

On Monday, February 12, 2024, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association v. Ontario (Attorney General). Justice Favreau, writing for the majority, found Bill 124...

On November 19, 2020, Bill C-9, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy and Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy) received Royal Assent.

In Jarvis v The Toronto-Dominion Bank ("Jarvis"), the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ("Court") ordered that a complainant's identity be disclosed in the context of a wrongful dismissal lawsuit...

In Rutledge v Canaan Construction Inc., the Ontario Superior Court of Justice determined that even if an employee is exempt from certain minimum standards under the Employment Standards Act, 2000...

Today, amendments to the Canada Labour Code ("Code") come into force to provide federally regulated private sector employees with up to 10 days of paid medical leave per calendar year.

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In July of 2018, we wrote about Haseeb v. Imperial Oil Limited, 2018 HRTO 957. In this decision, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ("HRTO") found that requiring a job candidate to be a permanent...

Paragon Protection Ltd. is a privately owned security company

In a recent recent decision, an Ontario Arbitrator upheld an employer's compulsory rapid testing protocol. The Union's grievance, which alleged that the testing protocol was unreasonable, was dismissed.

In a recent ruling, the Court of Appeal for Ontario set aside a lower court decision that reduced a dismissed employee's reasonable notice period on the grounds of poor mitigation efforts.

On February 28, 2022, the Ontario Legislature introduced Bill 88, Working for Workers Act, 2022. In addition to the enactment of the Digital Platform Workers Rights Act, 2022...

In Battiston v. Microsoft Canada Inc. the Court of Appeal for Ontario recently held that an employee who provided online confirmation that he had read his employer's stock option...

In Ottawa Catholic School Board v. Ontario Public Service Employees Union, Local 423, 2023 CanLII 33027 (ON LA), Arbitrator Parmar determined that an employer (the "School Board")...

On April 1, 2025, the Civil Rules Review ("CRR") Working Group released its Phase 2 Consultation paper ("Paper"), proposing comprehensive reforms to the Rules of Civil Procedure in Ontario.

In Monterosso v. Metro Freightliner Hamilton Inc., 2023 ONCA 413, the Court of Appeal accepted the employer's argument that independent contractors, unlike employees...