2024 Minimum Wage Increases
As we continue to move through 2024, and in response to the continued increases to the cost of living experienced by Canadians – jurisdictions across the Country are adjusting their minimum...
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Ontario Working For Workers Four Act, 2023 – Update
On March 21, 2024, the Ontario government passed the Working For Workers Four Act, 2023. This legislation was originally introduced on November 14, 2023 and comes after several Working for...
REPRISAL REVISITED
For all Canadian employers, it is crucial to understand the issue of reprisal through various statutory lenses. Today, a brief overview on reprisal in the context of occupational health and...
Ontario Court Strikes Down Another Termination Clause…This Time Including New Reasoning
In a recent case, Dufault v. The Corporation of the Township of Ignace, 2024 ONSC 1029, the Ontario Superior Court relied on a new argument regarding the validity of a...
Can An Email Constitute Just Cause For Termination? Maybe, But Not This Time
In a recent case out of British Columbia, Lefebvre v. Gisborne Holdings Ltd., an employer learned two hard lessons. First, you should always have an early termination clause in a...
Scams Targeting Employees
Over the last few months there has been an increase in phishing emails/texts/calls targeting everyone, including employees while at work. While employers can take proactive IT steps to limit these...
Disproportionate Reasonable Notice Awards for Short Service Employees
As you are aware, when determining common law reasonable notice periods, courts generally assess the typical factors such as the employee’s age, length of service, income, character of employment and...
2023 Round Up
Happy New Year! As we move in to 2024, we’ve highlighted below some important legal decisions in employment law last year: Giving Consideration to Oral Agreements In Dornan v. New...
Want your day in court? Be careful what you ask for!
There appears to be a recent trend, perhaps reflective of court backlogs and a frustrated judiciary, whereby employers who are overly aggressive, make false claims or decline a reasonable settlement...
Ontario Legislative Updates
Further to our last Alert, here are some additional legislative updates that employers should be aware of. Working For Workers, 2023 On October 26, 2023 the Working for Workers Act,...