Thursday, July 25, 2019
Authors – Alan Riddell, Kyle Van Schie Employee or Contractor? Cormier v. 1772887 Ontario Limited c.o.b. as St. Joseph Communications, 2019 ONSC 587 This case touched on two important issues for employers: how to tell the difference between employees and…
Thursday, July 25, 2019
By Alan Riddell When terminating employees, should you always insist on their signing a Release, releasing your organization from potential claims? Probably not. In some cases, securing a Release may involve far more trouble than it is worth. Recognizing when,…
Monday, July 22, 2019
By Alan Riddell and Kyle Van Schie Employers have a legal obligation to provide employees with a harassment-free workplace. They are obligated to take all reasonable precautions to protect their employees in the workplace. This includes the steps that an…
Monday, July 22, 2019
By Alan Riddell and Kyle Van Schie In order to avoid future, costly surprises, it is vital to determine whether your workers are "employees" or "independent contractors." By recognizing the nature of the relationships between your company and your workers,…
Friday, August 24, 2018
One of the most-publicized law changes in recent memory, on October 17, Parliament enacted Bill C-45, which decriminalized the smoking of marijuana and the ingestion of marijuana food products. To help clients get prepared, the Employment Law Group held a…
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Statutory Termination and Severance Pay not to be Reduced by Mitigation Income Earned; Mitigation Expenses Recoverable by Dismissed Employee This June, the Ontario Superior Court released a decision (Robinson v H.J. Heinz Company of Canada LP, 2018 ONSC 3424) that…
Monday, April 2, 2018
Accommodating employee scheduling conflicts is becoming an ever-increasing burden on employers and their HR staff. This trend is not likely to slow down and will likely only increase in the years ahead. Fewer and fewer employees now have stay-at-home spouses…
Thursday, March 1, 2018
This past February, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released an important and, to some employers, rather surprising decision, shedding new light on when employees are entitled to refuse offers of continued employment, following the sale of their employer’s business.…
Friday, September 1, 2017
An important decision was released during May in Ottawa-based lawsuit Bottiglia v Ottawa Catholic School Board, 2017 ONSC 2517, this time favourable to employers, on the issue of when an employer is entitled to insist that its disabled employees submit…
Monday, March 23, 2015
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