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- Employer’s Decision to Refuse Employment to Medicinal Marijuana User Upheld on Judicial Review
To M. Gorodensky – March 25, 2019 (00345029.DOCX;1) Canadian employers are increasingly required to balance their duty to maintain a safe working environment with the duty to accommodate the use of medical marijuana in the workplace. Last year, CCPartners blogged about Lower Churchill Transmission C … Read more »
- Court of Appeal Confirms Employer Hardball Tactics Support $125K in Extraordinary Damages
Last June CCP blogged about the risks employers face when they bring suspect counter-claims and make allegations of just cause that they can’t support at a wrongful dismissal trial [click here for Kelsey Orth’s previous blog]. In Ruston v. Keddco Mfg. (2011) Ltd. a trial court determined that the … Read more »
- Bill 66 Passes in Ontario Legislature – It Turns Out the Sky is Not Falling After All
The Ontario government has passed Bill 66, known as Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act, 2019. It is an omnibus bill making amendments to a number of statutes, but this article will focus on some of the more alarming (at least to the alarmists) amendments impacting labour and employment law. F … Read more »
- Court Comes Down on Employer: Failure to Train and Failure to Ensure Fall Protection Equipment Used Leads to Hefty Fine
As you know, the Provincial Government has the authority to publish convictions under the Provincial Offences Act, including those for violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. Earlier this week, the Ministry of Labour announced a sentence against a Windsor-area employer, Cybertech Cont … Read more »
- Court of Appeal Rules No Freestanding Tort of Harassment in Ontario
Back in 2017, we blogged about Merrifield v. the Attorney General (“Merrifield”), a decision where the Superior Court of Justice recognized a new and freestanding tort of harassment in Ontario. In that decision, Justice Vallee laid out the following four-part test to establish a civil claim for hara … Read more »
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