Employers have every reason to vigorously protect their confidential information. In a competitive marketplace, the maximum value of a work product is highly dependent on exclusivity of ownership. And as the saying goes, once the “genie is out of the bottle” it can never be back in. However, a recent case from the Ontario Superior…
While the Rolodex may be a thing of the past, its functional successor lives on in social networking sites such as LinkedIn. It’s no surprise then that companies encourage their employees to create profiles, share content, and “connect” with current and potential customers. But what happens when an employee leaves the organization to hang up…
In an extraordinary decision, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has just granted an interlocutory injunction prohibiting Loblaws Companies Limited and Loblaws Supermarkets Limited (“Loblaws”) from maintaining minimum scheduling requirements for part-time employees, pending resolution of outstanding grievance arbitrations on the issue. See: Sawyer v. Loblaws, 2011 ONSC 7251. The decision is particularly troublesome…