Everything You Need to Know About Wrongful Dismissal Employment law protects employees against being fired without just cause. Despite stringent employm...
Common human decency: bad faith in the manner of dismissal When an employer dismisses an employee, they create an emotional situation, as it is distressin...
Can an employer fire half of its employees? In early November, news broke that Twitter was firing half of its staff. Meta (Facebook’s parent company...
Employers need to be careful when drafting provisions in their contracts. Provincially regulated employers in Ontario can use contract provisions to limit ...
In a previous blog, I explained how Parmar v Tribe Management Inc. (2022 BCSC 1675) is a major win for non-unionized employers. It held that employers coul...
Employers with 25 or more employees, as of January 1, 2022, must have a written electronic monitoring policy in place by October 11, 2022. This change come...
The Employer’s Little-Known Duty to Inquire Typically, the employer has no duty to accommodate an issue that they are unaware of. However, there are...
A mandatory vaccine policy’s penalty of unpaid leave does not amount to constructive dismissal The Supreme Court of British Columbia recently became the...
Contracts come in many different forms. They can be written or orally agreed upon. Provisions can be clearly expressed. Provisions can also be implied, esp...
Termination under the Canada Labour Code: A Lack of Work or Discontinuance of a function In Ontario, provincially regulated employers have a lot of freedo...
