Ryan Conlin speaks to CBC Radio

By Jeffrey D.A. Murray Many employers across Canada are demanding their employees provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or face…

Jeremy Schwartz discusses the disturbing trend of employees forum shopping in human rights matters, and a recent HRTO decision which…

Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice has affirmed the long-standing principle that you cannot sue for a free-standing violation of a…

A new regulation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (“OHSA”) requires that workers and supervisors are provided with basic health and safety…

A new Regulation[1] under the OHSA will explicitly require that workers and supervisors receive basic occupational health and safety training as…

Ryan Conlin and Frank Portman discuss the disturbing trend of increasingly large general damages awards in human rights litigation.

In Sterling v Wendy’s Restaurant, the applicants (a former Wendy’s employee and his wife), named 14 personal respondents, who were members…

By: Ryan Conlin and Frank Portman The tragic Christmas Eve 2009 swing stage collapse which led to the deaths of four…

One of the most interesting questions that arose after the Bill C-45 amendments to the Criminal Code, is whether a defendant…

As part of the Bill 168 amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act (“OHSA”), workers can initiate a work refusal where…

Discrimination Case Reversed by the Courts: Are we Entering a New Era? – Allison Taylor

Frank Portman discusses occupational health and safety regulations, as applicable to employer social events.

The Ontario Court of Appeal, in Ontario (Labour) v. Flex-N-Gate Canada Company, has overturned a lower Court finding found that an employer…

One of the most challenging issues confronting employers is how to ensure the safety of their employees when they are…

Jessica Young explains the inherent risks associated with “encouraging” employees to retire.