What will arrive first; the employee with their doctor’s note or the employer with the discharge letter?

Since the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in Israel one year ago on Monday, there have been transformations and lessons to be learned in areas that stretch well beyond the conflict itself.

Jordan Peterson lost his application to the Supreme Court of Canada this week for leave to appeal against the decision of the College of Psychologists of Ontario requiring...

The Internet is always mere minutes away from derailing a career, irrespective of whether the target of the attacks deserves it. Canadians were shaken when news broke of the sudden passing of former Calgary Flame...

Last week I wrote about 10 common employer blunders. When I asked my team for their thoughts on employee gaffes, I received 10 columns' worth of material. That makes some sense since employers have the advantage...

On the surface, Gerald McGoey had a lucrative deal. The chief executive of Unique Broadband Systems Inc. was protected by a golden-parachute provision that provided enhanced termination benefits in certain circumstances and a share appreciation rights plan with another payout based on the price of the company’s shares.

Early in my practice, I would tell employers that if they wished to terminate an employee and avoid severance, they only had to do two things: check their resumé and other application documents and review.

A court may well yet find it sets a recognized standard of care employers should follow and will be liable if they do not, but for now an employer can follow the Human Rights Code.

New employee rights, and concomitant employer obligations, are springing up with such frequency that this weekly column barely has room to catalogue them. Following is the latest addition.

As gratifying as it may momentarily seem, throwing mud on one’s opponent in the hopes some of it will stick rarely is a successful strategy.

Employers should take note that complaints of being overworked are not simply a symptom of workplace dysfunction, they can be a cue for a lawsuit.

There is about to be a torrent of new litigation, the advent of an entire new area of law.

Since the pandemic made Zoom a household name and the initial default platform for any meeting, workplace technology has made unprecedented advancements.

I have historically had little concern with privacy law in advising my clients. Yes, there are privacy commissioners, privacy acts and countless seminars instructing employers...

One would think that, with Iran's brutality toward dissidents, China's internment of the people of Xinjiang, Syria's killing of hundreds of thousands in a bid to keep Assad in power and the mass slaughters in Darfur...

Mere weeks from the municipal election, the sudden news of Rob Ford’s cancer diagnosis brings to mind how devastating illness can be to one’s career.

Last week, Laura Walton, president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, sent a letter warning University of Toronto president Meric Gertler against the threatened use of law enforcement to break up...

An employee, disenchanted with her job, decides it is time to part ways. She pens a touching resignation letter, hands it to her boss and leaves after two weeks' notice.

What are the biggest mistakes employers make? I could write five columns on this, and come up with a different Top 10 in each.

Gary Keating has become the poster child for entitled Canadian public school teachers and an abject lesson as to the problem with public sector labour negotiations.