Will the Pay Transparency Act Narrow the Gender Pay Gap? Bill 57 Halts our Chance to Find Out Despite pay equity and anti-discrimination laws, female workers in Ontario earn less than their male counterparts. To address this gender wage gap, shortly before 2018...
Will Changed Workplace Laws Increase Competitiveness for Ontario Businesses? “We’ve heard loud and clear from businesses across Ontario that job growth starts with cutting the burdensome, job-killing red tape that is driving jobs and investment out of our province...
Doug’s Top 10 Employment Law Stories of 2018 In 2018 there were many new developments in the employment law world. Here are my top 10 stories of the year: 1. Bill 148 Bit the Dust Ontario’s Employment Standards Act received its last major update in 2000. During the...
Workplace Investigations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act The Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) imposes several obligations on employers to investigate complaints of workplace harassment. When there is an incident or complaint of workplace...
Arbitrator Finds Undue Hardship for Employer to Hire an Employee with a Medical Cannabis Prescription in a Safety-Sensitive Workplace With the recent legalization of recreational cannabis across Canada, employers are increasingly worried about its impact on...
Disputes Over Bonus Entitlements: Two Decisions on the “Active Employment” Requirement for Bonus Payouts Where an employee is terminated or resigns, what is the effect of a bonus plan that requires the employee to be “actively employed” at the time the bonus is paid...