In the recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision, Kielb v National Money Mart Company[1], an employee was denied a bonus payment upon termination based on the provisions of the employment contract. In the decision, Justice Akhtar confirmed th...
Read More →In the recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision, Kielb v National Money Mart Company[1], an employee was denied a bonus payment upon termination based on the provisions of the employment contract. In the decision, Justice Akhtar confirmed th...
Read More →With the recent expansion of legislation permitting the production, sale and use of marijuana for medical purposes, employers should begin to think about crafting a policy which addresses medical marijuana use in their workplace. For example, the smoki...
Read More →In Betts v. IBM Canada Ltd., the Court was faced with a dispute between Mr. Betts, who claimed he was legitimately absent from his employment due to illness, and his employer IBM, which claimed that Mr. Betts effectively resigned by not returning to wo...
Read More →Many employers hire independent contractors to assist in their workplace and in most cases, the assumption is that doing so will result in minimal or no notice of termination having to be paid at the end of the relationship. A recent case has confirm...
Read More →In May, Ontario’s Ministry of Labour commenced what is being called the “Changing Workplaces Review”. The review is intended to take a close look at the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (“ESA”) and the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (“LRA”), ...
Read More →The Ontario Divisional Court recently affirmed the lower court’s decision in the case of Miller v. A.B.M., an important case with respect to the interpretation of termination provisions in employment contracts. Regular readers of this blog may recall...
Read More →The Ontario Ministry of Labour has prepared and published a new Employment Standards Act, 2000 (“ESA”) poster entitled “Employment Standards in Ontario”. The poster is version 6.0 in a long line of ESA posters and Ontario employers were require...
Read More →Beginning in May 2015, the Ontario Ministry of Labour will begin a province-wide employment standards workplace inspection blitz targeting the janitorial, security, business services, fitness and recreation centres, amusement, and recreation sectors. T...
Read More →Ontario Last fall the Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000 was amended to index increases to the minimum wage to Ontario’s Consumer Price Index. Putting that into effect, Ontario is raising the general minimum wage from $11 to $11.25 per hour...
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