With schools returning to in-class learning, it’s only a matter of time until kids will be sent home for reasons related to COVID-19, once again putting parents in the impossible position of having to juggle childcare with work responsibilities. Those parents have some options to legally take time off work to take care of their...Continue Reading

This is Part 2 of our two-part discussion of notable employment law decisions of 2021. 3. The Post-Waksdale Cases Last year, the Ontario Court of Appeal released the landmark decision of Waksdale v. Swegon North America, 2020 ONCA 391 (“Waksdale”), which held that a “just cause” termination provision in an employment contract that violated the...Continue Reading

As 2021 draws to a close, we reflect on the employment law decisions that were released over the past year. Below is a high-level overview of the key aspects of five notable case law developments in 2021 that all employers and employees should know about. 1. The IDEL Cases In May 2021, the Ontario government...Continue Reading

On November 30, 2021, the Ontario legislature passed the Working for Workers Act, 2021 (the “Act”) which, once Royal Assent is received, will amend the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (the “ESA”) and create new statutory rights for provincially-regulated employees in Ontario. In this blog post, we address the following two changes in detail: (i) the...Continue Reading

By now, many employers are either being legally required to, or choosing to, implement a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for their workplaces. Yet, there is a significant segment of the workforce who remains vaccine resistant. This raises the question of what employers can do in response to workers who refuse to vaccinate – specifically, whether...Continue Reading