By Hannah Alberga for CTV News March 13, 2023 The Ontario government is proposing an update to employment laws that would entitle remote employees to termination notices. The proposed changes, announced on Monday, would make remote workers eligible for the same eight week minimum notice of termination or pay-in-lieu as in-office employees when mass [...]
By CBC News February 12, 2023 An independent human rights board of inquiry has found a woman who said she was fired as a result of complications from pregnancy was discriminated against. Donald Murray, chair of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission board of inquiry, released his decision on Feb. 7. The identity of [...]
By Mike Crawley for CBC News January 30, 2023 The vast majority of workers in Ontario haven't experienced anything quite like it their entire working lives: a labour market tilted in their favour. Statistics show unemployment running as low as it's ever been, record-high job vacancy numbers and unprecedented labour force participation rates. The [...]
Employment agreement clearly provides for discretionary annual performance-based pay, court says BY Bernise Carolino December 19, 2022 The judge below overlooked evidence about bonuses that the appellant previously received and should have awarded him the performance-based bonus payable under the employment agreement, the Ontario Court of Appeal said in a recent case. A motion [...]
By Bernise Carolino via Law Times News The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has concurrent jurisdiction to decide discrimination and harassment claims within the scope of collective agreements governed by Ontario’s Labour Relations Act (LRA) or Ontario’s Police Services Act (PSA), said the tribunal has ruled. In Weilgosh v. London District Catholic School Board, 2022 [...]
Bryan Passifiume Publishing date: Sept 16, 2022 via the National Post Members of a federal tribunal ruled in favour of a Toronto-area delivery driver denied Employment Insurance (EI) benefits after losing his job for refusing his employer’s COVID-19 vaccine policy. Last summer, Timothy Conlon was dismissed from his job after turning down a request [...]
By The Canadian Press TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will mark Sept. 19 as a Day of Mourning for Queen Elizabeth II in lieu of a provincial holiday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that Monday, which is the day of the Queen's state funeral in London, will be a [...]
By Peter Zimonjic via CBC News The date of Queen Elizabeth's funeral will be marked in Canada with a national holiday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday. "We have ... chosen to move forward with a federal holiday on Monday [Sept. 19]," Trudeau said in New Brunswick, where he is attending a Liberal caucus [...]
By Jim Wilson via the Canadian Occupational Safety Vancouver-based employer CRM of Canada Processing ULC has been fined $125,000 in an Ontario court after one of its workers was killed in a workplace incident. Following a guilty plea in Provincial Offences Court in Brantford, the employer must also pay a 25 per cent victim [...]
BY Katrina Eñano Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development has recently released new guidance that will aid employers in creating a written policy on electronic monitoring of their employees. On February 28, the Ontario government introduced the Working for Workers Act, 2022 (Bill 88), which includes changes to the Employment Standards Act, [...]