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Ontario’s decision not to participate in a federal temporary measure expanding access to low-wage temporary foreign workers has placed renewed attention on a difficult employment issue: how employers address labour shortages while navigating a shifting regulatory environment. Recent reporting note … Read more »

Workplaces in Ontario are increasingly diverse, collaborative, and socially aware. With this progress has come a greater recognition of subtle forms of discrimination that may not fit traditional definitions of overt harassment. Among these are “microaggressionsâ€�: everyday comments, behaviours, … Read more »

Side hustles are increasingly common in Toronto’s employment market. Employees may freelance, consult, sell products online, create content, drive for app-based services, tutor, coach, or build a small business outside their main job. Some do so for financial reasons. Others are testing a business … Read more »

Attendance has become one of the most closely watched workplace issues in the post-pandemic era. As more employers require employees to return to the office, disputes are emerging over badge data, hybrid work expectations, absences, remote work practices, and discipline for alleged non-compliance. A … Read more »

Vacation time is often treated as a scheduling issue. For employers, however, unused vacation can become much more than an administrative concern. When employees regularly defer, interrupt, or forfeit their vacation time, the consequences can affect productivity, morale, retention, workplace culture … Read more »