Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act: What Employers Need to Know Now – Jessica Young

Jessica Young discusses recent enforcement activities under the new Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)

The claim was filed 28 years ago by female employees of Canada Post with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (the…

Ryan Conlin and Jeremy Schwartz discuss a landmark WSIAT decision which held sections of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act…

By: Ryan J. Conlin and Jeremy D. Schwartz Historically, workers’ compensation law placed a highly restrictive definition on traumatic mental…

By Jeremy Schwartz and Haadi Malik In April, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled in Coutinho v Ocular Health Centre…

In February, we wrote about a decision by the Federal Court of Appeal in Wilson v Atomic Energy Limited (see our earlier…

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

By: Jeremy Schwartz Some organizations subscribe to the close your eyes and think good thoughts school of drafting, when it comes to…

Employers are often faced with the galling choice between asserting just cause for termination, and paying potentially large sums of…

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By Jeremy Schwartz The Ontario Superior Court has ruled that an employer that implemented a layoff during the pandemic, which was “deemed”…

Navigating the intricate legal environment of a merger, acquisition, takeover or other corporate restructuring can be difficult enough without the…

Employers are often told by their lawyers that satisfying a Court that there is “just cause” to terminate an employee…

A recent decision out of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice confirms that employees cannot give, contractually agreed, notice of…

Compliance with the new Employment Standard under AODA – Jessica Young