ICF International has released its seventh edition of Aviation and Aerospace M&A Quarterly – a publication highlighting merger and acquisition deals and trends in the aircraft, airlines, and aerospace sectors.

In the context of M&A transactions, an auction is a process by which multiple buyers simultaneously bid to acquire a target.

The shareholder activist arena has traditionally been within the U.S. capital markets.

With M&A transactions, the typical focus is preparing for and executing the deal. However, as briefly highlighted in a recent posting on this blog, integrating two businesses once a transaction is complete is often quite challenging and requires extensive planning.

Probationary periods serve an important role in ensuring that employers hire the right person for the job, but what are an employer's legal obligations when terminating a probationary employee?

On November 15, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada released reasons in Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 401.

The proposed plaintiffs alleged that the call centre’s closure was caused by the defendants’ diversion of monies for personal purposes before the closure.

In O’Neill v General Motors of Canada Ltd., 2013 ONSC 4654, a motion for partial summary judgment was granted in a class action by retired employees of GM after their health care and life insurance benefits were substantially reduced to offset GM’s financial difficulties.

In Canada (Attorney General) v Cruden, 2013 FC 520, a Federal Court justice denied the existence of a separate procedural duty to accommodate that could be breached even if the substantive duty had been met.

There are many rules and regulations that employers must follow to ensure workplace safety. The Ministry of Labour has just announced new rules relating to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act.

The B.C. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal considered a petition by temporary farm hands injured when a truck they were riding in left the road.

In Morgan v Herman Miller Canada Inc, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal heard an Application made pursuant to section 34 of the Human Rights Code.

Employers will often have employees sign employment agreements after they start working.

A recent decision of the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario has granted payment in lieu of notice to a consultant who was found to be a dependent contractor.

The government's new School Boards Collective Bargaining Act, which passed last year, has become the subject of controversy.

In a recent decision, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ("the Tribunal") decided in favour of two teenaged employees who were fired for refusing to work on a religious holiday.

Historically, it was well established at common law that the sale of a business severed the employment relationship between the business that was being sold and the employee.

recent case out of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia has confirmed that where a business is not sold as a going concern, an employee's years of service recognition resets, regardless of whether that employee takes on employment with the successor company.

The recent decision of United Steelworkers of America, Local 9548 v Tenaris Algoma Tubes Inc, provides an example of how a unionized employee’s off-duty social media behavior can justify dismissal.

The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has issued new rules which create a "traffic light" process in response to earthquakes believed to have been caused by hydraulic fracturing.