The employee began working at Kitsumkalum First Nation (Employer) in 2005 as a teacher and was promoted to principal in 2017.

On October 26, 2023, Ontario's Bill 79, Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79) received Royal Assent and came into force.

On July 9, 2021, Ontario announced that with improvements in key indicators relating to public health and health care, and the provincewide vaccination rate surpassing targets...

In Shalagin v. Mercer Celgar Limited Partnership, 2022 BCSC 112 (Mercer), the Supreme Court of British Columbia dismissed an employee's wrongful dismissal claim and held that his surreptitious recording of conversations with his colleagues justified the termination of his employment for just cause.

In a recent appeal to the Divisional Court of Ontario's Superior Court in Shete, Lada, and Chung v. Bombardier Inc., 2019 ONSC 4083.

In United Steelworkers Local 14193 v. Cameco Fuel Manufacturing Inc., 2023 CanLII 115899 (ON LA), an arbitrator dismissed a union's policy grievance on the grounds that, contrary to the union's assertion...

In December 2021, Ontario passed Bill 27, Working for Workers Act, 2021, which amended the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA) to, among other things...

In Corporation of the City of Calgary v Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 583, 2023 CanLII 20867 (AB GAA), Arbitrator James T. Casey dismissed the union's grievance of an employee's...

Employers considering terminating long-term employees in Canada should be aware of two relatively recent decisions. In one case, Dawe, 2018 ONSC 3130,

A recent Ontario Court of Appeal (OCA) decision demonstrates the process an employer may be expected to undertake to recover employee-stolen funds when the proceeds of the fraud...

Bill 132, entitled "Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act, 2015" has now been passed into law in Ontario and will be in force September 8, 2016.

It appears there is a movement afoot in Ontario to change behavior around the classification of employees as independent contractors.

In March 2020, the world was devastated as it faced an unforeseeable reality: the World Health Organization announced that a deadly pandemic was rapidly spreading throughout the globe.

In 2020, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT) confirmed that when a claim for constructive dismissal is based on harm sustained due to harassment

In Nelson v. Goodberry Restaurant Group Ltd. dba Buono Osteria and others, 2021 BCHRT 137, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal found that a restaurant and its managers that refused to use a server's pronouns, ...

Effective November 12, 2025, British Columbia employers face new limitations under the Employment Standards Act (the "ESA") regarding their ability to request medical documentation for short-term health-related absences.

In Power Workers' Union v Elexicon Energy Inc., 2022 CanLII 7228 (ON LA) (Elexicon Energy), a union challenged the reasonableness of an electricity distribution company's mandatory COVID-19...

Canadian law clearly requires employers to accommodate employees with disabilities unless it causes an undue hardship. But how are employers to deal with employees on medical leave

In Oostlander v Cervus Equipment Corporation, 2022 ABQB 200, the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta awarded 24 months' pay in lieu of reasonable notice to a long-term heavy duty mechanic, less mitigation income.

Bill 66, Restoring Ontario's Competitiveness Act, 2018 ("Bill 66") received Royal Assent on April 3, 2019.1 Amendments to the Employment Standards Act, 2000 ("ESA")