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- Update: Status Quo for Family Status: Different Tests for Family Status Discrimination Persist Across Canada
This post was originally published January 31, 2020 and was updated November 23, 2020 The debate continues on what constitutes family status discrimination following the Supreme Court of Canada’s denial of leave to appeal in the matter of Environcon Environmental Services, ULC v. Suen (2019 BCCA 46) … Read more »
- One Bad Apple May Spoil the Bunch – Ontario Superior Court Determines Reference to "Just Cause" May Invalidate an Otherwise Enforceable Termination Provision
Following the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision in Waksdale v Swegon North America Inc.(Waksdale), a decision we wrote about last June, Ontario’s Superior Court has continued the judicial trend of troubling decisions for employers. In Sewell v. Provincial Fruit Co. Limited, an employment agreement … Read more »
- Cutting Red Tape: Bill 47 Proposes Changes to the Workers' Compensation Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Act
The Government of Alberta has introduced Bill 47, the Ensuring Safety and Cutting Red Tape Act, 2020 (“Bill 47”) to amend the Workers’ Compensation Act (“WCA”) and the Occupational Health and Safety Act (“OHSA”). Bill 47 was introduced on November 5, 2020. In the first reading speech, the Minister o … Read more »
- COVID-19 Update: Further Changes to the EI Program and Implementation of the Three New Recovery Benefits
In response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 crisis and the end of the CERB program, the Government of Canada has made further changes to the EI program to facilitate greater access to EI benefits, in addition to the changes reported on our previous update. The Government has also now passed … Read more »
- Solvency Special Payments for Federally Regulated DB Plans Suspended to End of 2020, Consultation Promised for 2021
On April 15, 2020, Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced that “the government will provide immediate, temporary relief to sponsors of federally regulated, defined benefit pension plans. This relief will be in the form of a moratorium, through the remainder of 2020, on solvency payment requirements … Read more »