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- To Terminate for Cause, or Without Cause – That is the Question
A recent New Brunswick Court of Appeal decision underlined the significance of alleging cause at the time of the termination, not after. Facts The plaintiff employee had been employed by the defendant employer, RTO Asset Management (“RTO”) for nearly thirty (30) years, most recently as a Regional Ma … Read more »
- Information Overload! How Should Employers Handle Medical Information in a Pandemic?
I am writing this blog on November 25, 2020. Christmas is one month away. Access to an effective COVID-19 vaccine is … well certainly more than a month away. Exactly two months ago, the Ontario government introduced legislation requiring employers to conduct mandatory daily screening for COVID-19 … Read more »
- BREAKING: Ontario Introduces New Restrictions to COVID-19 Hot Zones
This afternoon Premier Ford announced a slew of new restrictions intended to curb the spread of COVID-19. Most notably, Toronto and Peel Region will be moved into Lockdown effective Monday, November 23, 2020 at 12:01 a.m. Measures under Lockdown include, but are not limited to: Schools, before and a … Read more »
- SHORT-TERM EMPLOYEE’S WRONGFUL DISMISSAL CLAIM FOR YEAR’S WORTH OF REASONABLE NOTICE DENIED
When it comes to termination of employment and wrongful dismissal, the case law in recent years has, to put it mildly, not generally favoured employers. Whether looking at the numerous decisions dissecting ESA-entitlement termination clauses and finding them wanting, or the seeming upward trend in … Read more »
- COVID-19 UPDATE: ONTARIO MOVES MORE REGIONS INTO THE RED ZONE AND LOWERS ITS POSITIVITY THRESHOLD
Ontario is making changes to its colour-coded COVID-19 system and putting several regions into the red “control” zone which has more severe restrictions, the Province announced today. The change comes after Premier Doug Ford’s government came under fire in recent days for its zone system being too l … Read more »