Don’t Forget to Consider “Consideration” – Jeremy Schwartz

Employers often avoid making significant, compliance-oriented changes for fear that employees will discover their rights have been violated for years…

The AODA Employment Standard deadlines are not as far away as they may seem. The Employment Standard is one of…

Landon Young discusses how to avoid the fixed term contract trap.

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

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

This is segment 3 of 5 from our Q3 webinar held on Thursday, October 10, “Breach of Confidentiality Clauses in Settlements”

Canadian employees are presumptively entitled to “reasonable notice” of termination.  Although this entitlement can be limited to some extent by…

Amanda discusses the law on bonus eligibility during the reasonable notice period

When an employer terminates an employee without just cause in Ontario, it must either provide reasonable notice of the termination,…

Employers Not Liable for Tort of Negligent Investigation – But… – Jeffrey Murray and Jeremy Schwartz

The law on addiction has evolved over the years in arbitral jurisprudence.  Earlier decisions treated illness as a mitigating factor…

Bill 30, An Act to Amend the Employment Standards Act, 2000 in respect of family caregiver leave, went through its second…

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

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

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