In the course of 20 years, the organization and technological infrastructure of a company is bound to undergo significant changes.

In the recent case of Penteliuk v CIBC World Markets Inc, the Ontario Superior Court held that an employee whose promised promotion was taking longer than expected was not constructively dismissed.

In an interesting executive employment decision, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently upheld a contractual provision that resulted in forfeiture of restricted share units after resignation in Levinsky v The Toronto-Dominion Bank.

When does an employee have to provide a Doctor's note to excuse a workplace absence? After the absence, during or before?

What responsibilities does a federal employer have to appoint a competent person to investigate a complaint of work place violence under the Canada Labour Code?

In Canada, particularly in the province of Quebec, the length of notice of termination to which an employee is entitled is fairly generous.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has recently upheld a decision of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal which discussed the interaction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Ontario Human Rights Code with respect to discrimination in the employment context.

Surprisingly, name tag policies have become the subject of recent litigation and labour board decisions on the topic have been hitting the news.

A recent decision from the California Labour Commission (the Commission) has held that drivers from the popular Uber service are employees and not independent contractors.

The Ontario Divisional Court quashed an application for judicial review by an employee seeking to overturn an arbitrator’s decision denying his grievance.

A few people have recently learned that publicly embarassing yourself outside of work can have a serious impact at work.

Industry professionals envision an increase in shareholder activism in light of falling prices and growing activist investor successes.

A recent report by the Royal Bank of Canada reveals that lower oil prices may result in cuts to business investment in the oil and gas industry.

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt recently let it be known that the Canadian federal government will for the first time be requiring some shippers of crude oil by rail or truck to put in place Emergency Response Assistance Plans (ERAPs) under the federal Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992.

On May 5th, the Bank of Canada released a consultation paper on changes that it is considering making to its Emergency Lending Assistance program.

Going public is, expectedly, the goal of many private companies and their founders. There are two methods of taking a private company public—initial public offerings (IPO) and reverse take-overs (RTO)—that draw the most attention in our capital markets and headlines, most often because of the lucrative opportunities or surprising arrangements that they create.

On February 25, 2015, regulations amending the annual statement requirements for federally regulated financial institutions (FRFIs) were published in the Canada Gazette.

The US Deputy Attorney General, Sally Quillian Yates, recently released a memorandum (Yates Memo) in which she outlined a new strategy to help combat corporate fraud and other wrongdoing.

Last October 19th, a new federal Liberal government was elected ending nine years of rule by the Conservative Party.

In Logan v. Hong, the British Columbia Court of Appeal considered whether third party doctors across Canada were required to provide plaintiff’s counsel with the names and contact information of patients the doctors had injected with defendants’ product.