I’ve previously written on the topic of the common law “reasonable working notice” entitlements of short-service employees. Suffice to say, most employers are taken aback to learn that terminated employees who had only been...
For as long as I’ve been practicing employment law, my #1 piece of advice to employers has been, “Use proper employment agreements”. It’s simple advice which, sadly, still has not penetrated much of the employer commu...
Recent media reports indicate that, as part of a suite of changes intended to free up doctors’ time, Ontario employers will no longer be permitted to demand a doctor’s note to substantiate an employee’...
"If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?” “Tuco”, in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ...
As time passes and more COVID-related claims are adjudicated, it’s becoming apparent that judges aren’t feeling a lot of sympathy for employees hoping to capitalize, financially. ...
A few years ago, I wrote an article – Honey, I Shrunk the Family (Status)! – addressing the concept of “family status” discrimination in the province of B.C. In particular, that article dis...
The 1842 poem, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, by Robert Browning tells a cautionary tale of a rat-infested German city which agreed to pay a stranger to rid Hamelin of its vermin. The Pied Piper did so as ...
The COVID-19 pandemic may no longer be front of mind for many of us (we’re now focused on unidentified flying objects getting shot down over our territory), but the courts continue to churn through the multitude of...