On February 7, 2023, Bill 2, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Act, was introduced at first reading before the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

On December 17, 2020 the Ontario Government amended O. Reg. 228/20 by extending the "COVID-19 Period" set out thereunder to July 3, 2021.

In a decision issued on 11 November 2021, an Ontario arbitrator held that the Electrical Safety Authority's mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy was unreasonable.

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The Government of Canada has implemented a policy requiring all federal public servants in the Core Public Administration, and members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...

On November 27, 2024, the Ontario government introduced Bill 229, the sixth statute in its Working for Workers legislative series, the Working for Workers Six Act...

Until September 20, 2024, employers and other stakeholders can provide comments on the proposed new rules for job postings in Ontario. These proposed rules include the new Part III.1 (Job Postings)...

Employers will want to take note and ensure that their compensation complies with these minimum basic wages (where applicable), and any other relevant rules.

Federally regulated employers should be aware of upcoming compliance deadlines under the Accessible Canada Act. The first of these deadlines is June 1, 2023.

On 30 May 2023, Canada's Competition Bureau released its Enforcement Guidelines on the Federal Government's recent amendments to the Competition Act which, commencing on 23...

On 1 January 2024, the Government of Canada imposed reporting obligations on certain entities as the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act...

To help employers financially recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ontario Government and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board ("WSIB")...

On August 24, 2024, the Canada Industrial Relations Board (the "Board") imposed binding arbitration on Canadian National Railway ("CN"), Canadian Pacific Kansas City ("CPKC")...

In a recent arbitral decision, Birla Carbon Canada Ltd. v Teamsters Local Union No. 879, the Arbitrator upheld the dismissal of an employee who returned to the workplace prematurely...

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")...

In a recent decision from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Court found that an employee was constructively dismissed from her employment after her employer demanded that she return to in-person work.

In August, a major railway sector labour disruption significantly impacted many businesses in Canada who rely on freight shipments by train, as well as overall rail transport across the country.

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On September 8, 2022, Buckingham Palace announced the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen ascended to the throne on February 6, 1952, and reigned over the United Kingdom...