Class Action for Unpaid Overtime Derailed: Is this the End of High-profile Overtime Class Proceedings? – Landon Young and Ryan Conacher

It is common practice for employers to offer departing employees, who are being terminated without cause, a separation package in…

Taking the Panic out of Pandemic Planning – Ryan Conacher

By: Jeremy Schwartz and Daniel Gaspar On October 2, 2020, Federal Bill C-4, An Act relating to certain measures in response…

The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.  Not since H1N1 and SARS before that, have employers faced…

An Ontario Court has signaled that it is prepared to adjudicate wrongful dismissal cases very quickly where the employer has not asserted…

A recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision dealt a blow to employers’ ability to credit employee mitigation efforts and income…

Hot on the heels of the announcement of the recent MOL enforcement blitz, a freshly filed statement of claim in…

Frank Portman discusses a recent case in which the Ontario Court of Appeal reversed a trial decision and substituted a…

How do you know when an employee has quit her job? It may seem like a simple question, but the…

Landon Young discusses a recent wrongful dismissal class action lawsuit and the potential impact on employment litigation

The Ontario Superior Court recently found that an employee had been constructively dismissed when her employer reneged on its promise…

Many employers find it necessary to assess new employees’ performance on the job before making a final determination about whether…

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (the “Tribunal”) recently awarded $101,363.16, representing four years’ lost salary, and $15,000.00 for injury to dignity,…

By: Landon Young & Jeremy Schwartz A release of claims signed by an employee upon termination has been struck down…

One of the more deceptively complex questions in some cases can be: Who is the employer? Many businesses and organizations…