Responding to Human Rights Harassment Complaints: Guidelines from the HRTO – Jeremy Schwartz

By: Jeremy Schwartz and Frank Portman Your employee is on Facebook over her lunch break, when she notices that her…

Employers are often unsure whether they have the right to ask for doctor’s notes (i.e. medical evidence) to justify employee…

Allison Taylor discusses progressive discipline and termination for employee misconduct.

A new month, a new blitz!  In keeping with its practice of conducting new health and safety “blitzes” every month,…

The Ontario Human Rights Code (the “Code”) was recently amended to add “gender identity or gender expression” as a ground of discrimination….

In April, we blogged that the Supreme Court of Canada had granted leave to appeal a decision regarding the random alcohol testing…

Ryan Conlin quoted in the National Post and speaks with CTV News and 610 CKTB Radio re Multi-million dollar employee benefits fraud allegedly involving 150 Baycrest…

Employers have made their plans; they’ve hunkered down; and they’ve sheltered in place. As we traverse the long and winding…

The Ontario Superior Court recently awarded four months of pay in lieu of reasonable notice to an employee with less…

Ryan Conlin discusses the potentially watershed decision in R. v. Roofing Medics, in which the court commented that more personal…

Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act: How the Integrated Accessibility Standards Will Affect You – Jessica Young

As technology becomes more ubiquitous in the workplace, the importance of having proper policies and discipline to govern the use…

This summer, the License Appeal Tribunal, which has jurisdiction over the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (the “AODA”), released its…

In a case that can only be described as a cautionary tale, an employer was ordered to pay 5 months…