In 2015, Ontario introduced Bill 132, the Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act to address workplace violence and sexual harassment in provincially regulated workplaces. However, until now, no comparable…
There are often circumstances where you look at a contract and it’s tempting to be confident as to how a court will decide a case. For example, employees may be…
Employees in Canada are either “provincial” or “federal” when it comes to employment rights. What this means is that your employment is essentially governed either by the province in which…
Bill 113, Police Record Checks Reform Act, 2015 (the “Act”) will come into effect in Ontario on November 1, 2018. The Act will standardize the process for conducting police record…
Premier Doug Ford’s government introduced omnibus legislation on Tuesday, October 23, 2018 designed to repeal the bulk of Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017 (“Bill 148”). The majority of the…
The Ontario Court of Appeal has provided a useful decision on the topic of when an employee can be suspended without triggering a termination of employment. The case, Filice v Complex…
Starting July 31st, 2018, European, Middle Eastern and African citizens applying for a visitor visa, work/study permit, permanent residence, or refugee or asylum status must submit biometric information (photograph and…
The duty of an employee to mitigate damages after a termination of employment operates to help reduce the period of unemployment or underemployment over which the former employer may owe…
Sharaf Sultan was recently quoted in Canadian HR Reporter discussing an employer who was sentenced to jail for 90 days and hit with a $900,000 in fines for unpaid wages. Read…
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