In Horne v. Public Service Alliance of Canada, 2024 HR 1788, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) dismissed an application alleging that a job posting stating the successful...

In Teamster's Local Union 847 v. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (Maple Leaf), Arbitrator Norm Jesin denied a union's grievance over an employer's policy that ...

On August 20, 2021, Toronto's Medical Officer of Health (TMOH) issued a statement effectively mandating that local employers institute a workplace vaccination policy (WVP) to protect their ...

On October 2, 2020, the government of Ontario filed Ontario Regulation 546/20 (Regulation) made under the Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to COVID-19) Act, 2020.

Ontario's highest court has confirmed that employment contract provisions that will breach the Employment Standards Act (‘ESA') in the future are void and unenforceable.

On January 14, 2021, Ontario announced the start of a workplace health and safety inspection blitz of big-box stores in Toronto, Hamilton, Peel, York, and Durham.

Ontario's Bill 190, Working for Workers Five Act, 2024, amended the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) to add new washroom facility-related requirements for employers...

In early 2017, in a case about strained relations between a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (the "RCMP") member and several of his supervisors, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (the "ONSC")

In Lake v. La Presse, 2022 ONCA 742, the only issue on appeal was whether the lower court erred in reducing the employee's wrongful dismissal damages for failure to mitigate.

In Kraft v. Firepower Financial Corp., 2021 ONSC 4962 (Firepower Financial), an employee brought a motion for summary judgment seeking 10 months' salary in lieu of notice, commissions and bonuses...

On November 19, 2021, the Government of Canada announced the following amendments to its travel requirements...

In a lawsuit involving both wrongful dismissal and defamation, Canada's Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Papp v. Stokes et al, 2017 ONSC 2357, has ruled that an employer's negative review...

On January 14, 2025, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada announced that effective January 21, 2025, open work permit...

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) was established in 2008 to document the history and legacy of residential schools, which were operated between the late 1800s and the late 1990s...

Last May, Ontario released its Roadmap to Reopen, a three-step plan to safely and gradually reopen the province and loosen certain public health restrictions.

On September 14, 2021, Ontario's Ministry of Health released Version 1.0 of Medical Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccination (Guidelines). The purpose of the Guidelines is to assist physicians/specialists and...

In Taylor v. Salytics Inc., 2025 ONSC 3461, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice considered whether a temporary layoff provision in an employment contract constituted a termination provision...

In Scott v. Community Living Temiskaming South, 2021 ONSC 5402 (Community Living), the court dismissed an employee's claim for wrongful dismissal from his unionized position

The Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador rendered a welcome decision in February for employers across Canada that have been struggling to balance their obligations under occupational health

Ontario's proof of vaccine requirement for patrons of certain indoor public settings commenced on September 22, 2021.