We are pleased to announce the relaunch of the Workplace Wire blog to give our readers a more user-friendly experience. The clean, modern design is easier-to-navigate and the core features, services and resources of the blog are displayed prominently for easy access. Understanding that our readers are consuming information on a variety of devices, including…
At the end of 2011, we wrote about the case of Maclean v. The Raywal Limited Partnership. In that case, the Superior Court confirmed that an temporary layoff by an employer constitutes a termination of employment under the common law. Although a recent Superior Court case has questioned this principle (which we will write about shortly), McLean confirmed a commonly…
The Ontario legislature added “gender identity” and “gender expression” as prohibited grounds of discrimination to the Human Rights Code (the “Code”) in the summer of 2012. The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (“HRTO”) had previously recognized discrimination against transgendered-people to be prohibited on the basis of “sex”, thus theCode amendments were seen by many to be largely symbolic…
Last week Thursday, the Liberal government in Ontario released itsproposed budget. While we’re still waiting to hear from the NDP as to whether their support will ensure its passage, we have prepared a brief summary on its potential impact on pension law in Ontario should it ultimately be passed.
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal is in the midst of hearing a case involving a Jamaican citizen who died while working in Canada as a temporary agricultural worker. The worker died in August 2002 after a farm skid fell on him. At the time of his death, he was working for a tobacco farm just outside of Brantford,…