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    Big Question For Canadian Employers In 2021: Can They Require Employees To Be Vaccinated?

    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.
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
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    Ontario, Canada: Divisional Court Overturns Decision Holding That Workplace Safety And Insurance Act Barred Constructive Dismissal Claim

    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
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal Finds Employer Discriminated Against Transgender Employee Based On Their Gender Identity And Expression

    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, ...
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    British Columbia Restricts Employer Requests For Sick Notes

    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.
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    Canadian Arbitrator Upholds Mandatory Vaccination Policy For Employees Who Work Indoors

    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...
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    How To Manage Unresponsive Employees On Leave

    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
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    DOL Confirms Supervisors And Managers Who Also Work Tipped Shifts Cannot Participate In A Tip Pool

    The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has issued guidance addressing whether restaurant supervisors who perform tipped duties like bartending can participate in tip pools with other employees. The opinion clarifies how managerial status is determined for tip-pooling purposes and explains when supervisors may or may not retain tips, even when they work alongside frontline staff.
    United StatesEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    New York City Opens The Nation's First Office Of Worker Power To Support Labor Organizing And Workplace Rights

    New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani has established the nation's first municipal office dedicated to helping workers organize and connect with unions. The Mayor's Office of Worker Power will focus on outreach, education, and policy development while addressing emerging priorities including new technologies, worker misclassification, immigration-based exploitation, and climate risks to worker safety.
    United StatesEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    Alberta, Canada Court Deducts CERB Payments From Substantial Reasonable Notice Award To Long-term Employee

    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.
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
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    Bill 66, Restoring Ontario's Competitiveness Act, 2018 Has Received Royal Assent, Amending Ontario, Canada's Labour And Employment Laws Once Again

    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")
    United StatesEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
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    British Columbia, Canada Bill Introducing Temporary COVID-19-Related Paid Leave And Permanent Paid Personal Illness Or Injury Leave Receives Royal Assent

    On May 11, 2021, British Columbia (BC) announced that it had introduced Bill 13, Employment Standards Amendment Act (No. 2), 2021 (Bill 13) for first reading. Bill 13 received Royal Assent on...
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    British Columbia Appeal Court Upholds Finding That Employee's Surreptitious Recording Of Conversations With Colleagues Justified His Dismissal For Just Cause

    In Shalagin v. Mercer Celgar Limited Partnership, 2023 BCCA 373, the British Columbia Court of Appeal (BCCA) upheld the lower court's dismissal of an employee's wrongful dismissal...
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    British Columbia: Bill 13, Pay Transparency Act Receives Royal Assent

    On May 11, 2023, British Columbia, Canada's Bill 13, Pay Transparency Act (Act), received Royal Assent. Section 2 of the Act, which addresses the employer's obligations...
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    Ontario, Canada Announces Plan To Lift Capacity Limits And Proof Of Vaccination Requirements

    Ontario first released its plan to follow a cautious and phased approach to lifting COVID-19 public health and workplace safety measures on January 20, 2022.
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    Ontario, Canada Court Finds Employment Contract Frustrated By Employee's Refusal To Become Vaccinated Against COVID-19

    In Croke v. VuPoint Systems Ltd., 2023 ONSC 1234, Ontario's Superior Court of Justice decided that an employee's refusal to comply with mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirements...
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    Ontario, Canada May Soon See Regulations Addressing Temporary Help Agencies' Liability For Workplaces Injuries

    A proposed amendment to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 (the "WSIA") that would expand workplace liability for injuries to temporary employees...
    United StatesEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    Ontario, Canada Court Confirms Sexual Harassment Not An Independent Tort

    n Incognito v. Skyservice Business Aviation Inc., 2022 ONSC 1795, an employee made a claim for damages against her employer's Vice-President of Sales (VP) for sexual assault...
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    British Columbia Tribunal Confirms Time Theft Proven By Time-Tracking Software May Justify Employment Termination For Cause

    The decision of the British Columbia, Canada Civil Resolution Tribunal (Tribunal) in Besse v. Reach CPA Inc., 2023 BCCRT 27 is especially relevant now that remote work has become common.
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    Federal Court Of Appeal Affirms Federally Regulated Employees Can Make Unjust Dismissal Complaints After Signing Releases

    Recently, in Bank of Montreal v. Li, 2020 FCA 22, the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) dismissed the Bank of Montreal's (BMO's)...
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada
  • Article

    Arbitrator Upholds Reasonableness Of Hospital Vaccination Policy For Termination Of Non-compliant

    An arbitrator recently issued the first award in Ontario to address and uphold the reasonableness of a hospital vaccination policy that provides for the termination of employment for non-compliance.
    CanadaEmployment and HR
    Littler - Canada
    Littler - Canada

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