On December 2, 2021, the Ontario government passed Bill 27, the Working for Workers Act, 2021, that presented employee friendly changes to workplace laws. In response to Bill 27, the …

In response to the mandatory vaccination announcement made by the Ontario government on September 22, 2021, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has published a Policy Statement breaking down the …

Modern employment agreements typically include harsh termination provisions which seek to limit an employee’s rights to the statutory minimum. (See my previous blog post where I outline employees’ common law …

Qualifying employees typically have two “buckets” of entitlements when they are let go by their employers: Common law entitlements. Statutory entitlements. Common law notice is often the most significant of …

Summary When an employee is wrongfully dismissed, they are entitled to a retroactive payment of “reasonable notice” from their employer. (“Reasonable notice” is a judicial assessment of the length of …

Chances are, employees are entitled to what’s called “common law notice” a.k.a. “reasonable notice” before being let go. (Although employers are allowed to write employment contracts in such a way …

In June, the Supreme Court ruled in its Uber v Heller decision that the arbitration clause in Uber’s contract with one of its drivers, Mr. Heller, was invalid. The clause …

Upon termination of employment, employees probably have legal rights to more than what their employers say they do (and oftentimes, to more than their contract says they do…). Under Ontario …

An employer’s surveillance of its employees in the workplace is anything but a straightforward topic. PIPEDA requires – broadly – that employer surveillance must be reasonable and that with some exceptions, employers …

Generally speaking, the union is an employee’s only avenue for asserting their workplace-related legal rights. However, employees have the right to be represented “fairly” by their unions. A lawyer can …