ONCA Cautions Against Partial Summary Judgment As I noted in an earlier blog, the Supreme Court in Hryniak v Mauldin, “rewrote the law on summary judgment” and opened the doors to a fast and cost-effective method of obtaining judgment for terminated employees. The...
Bill 148 – Summary of Changes to the Employment Standards Act and When Each Change is Implemented On November 22, 2017, the Ontario legislature passed the final version of Bill 148- the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act. Below is a summary of some of the...
The Impact of the Fair Workplaces Act on Pregnancy and Parental Leave Earlier this year we blogged about the proposed changes to the Employment Insurance Act which would allow new parents to receive their employment insurance benefits over 18 months instead of 12...
Damages Owed Under Fixed Term Contracts In my last blog post, I discussed a case where an independent contractor who signed a fixed term contract was owed notice of termination, specifically, 5 months and 3 weeks. There are very important differences between...
Employment Standards Alert: The Cost of Doing Business in Ontario Just Went Up The Ontario government’s much publicized overhaul to the province’s employment standards legislation will take effect as early as December 3, 2017. For the most part, vulnerable employees...
Can a successor employer offer a person lessor termination pay than the original employer? Can a successor employer offer a person lessor termination pay than the original employer? This issue was addressed by Ontario’s Court of Appeal in Krishnamoorthy v. Olympus...
Your Bonus – How to Ensure You Receive It? What your contract says about your bonus is significant. There have been many legal disputes assessing the language of employment contracts in recent years. Many of these cases focus on bonuses. An employer can try to...
Independent Contractor Owed Notice of Termination One common misconception is that, unlike employees, independent contractors are not owed notice of termination. In one recent case from Ontario, an employer was forced to pay an independent contractor for notice...