In Ontario, if an employer terminates an employee, they must provide the employee with notice or pay in lieu of notice and potentially severance pay (depen...
The Canada Labour Code (CLC) covers all federally regulated employees, excluding managers. The CLC has provisions on the rights of unionized employees, but...
The principle behind common law notice, or pay in lieu of notice, is that it is meant to provide enough time and/or money for an employee to find an altern...
Recently, Bill 149, also known as the Working for Workers Four Act, 2023, received royal accent, making changes to the Employment Standards Act. Therefore,...
We often think of bullying as something restricted to the schoolyard. However, workplace bullying does occur. It is not restricted to a type of work or cau...
Both Ontario's Human Rights Code and the Canadian Human Rights Act protect employees from discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression. Th...
AI cannot replace an employment lawyer Online, there is a bunch of recent discussions about Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is not new. It has been aroun...
In Ontario, courts are carefully scrutinizing termination clauses in employment contracts. Based on recent cases, if even one part of a termination clause ...
Employees can get arrested and charged for crimes that they committed inside and outside of the workplace. Such a situation already puts an employer in an ...
When an employment contract is frustrated, an employer is exempt from providing the employee with notice or pay in lieu of notice. An employment contract w...
