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While not all employment relationships end as badly as the title of this article, they all, eventually, end.  Where the employer makes the choice to terminate, the employee decides to moves on or there is a frustration of contract, there is usually a clear demarcation between when an employee has ce … Read more »

As a follow-up to our recent blog that we released earlier this week, Ontario’s new legislation, Bill 284, COVID-19 Putting Workers First Act, 2021, has now received Royal Assent. In a nutshell, this Bill temporarily entitles employees to three (3) days of paid infectious disease emergency leave and … Read more »

In what may be the first of many COVID-19 related constructive dismissal claims in Ontario, the Superior Court of Justice determined that employees deemed to be on infectious disease emergency leave (“IDEL”) may still claim constructive dismissal at common law. Employment lawyers have been anticipat … Read more »

Paid Leave The Ontario government has announced that they will introduce legislation that would, if passed, require employers to provide employees with up to $200 of pay for up to three days if they are missing work because of COVID-19. The new Ontario COVID-19 Worker Income Protection Program would … Read more »

This has been a common theme in recent months for the Employer’s Edge, but once again, an employer’s contractual termination language has been deemed unenforceable because it did not adhere to  the Employment Standards Act, 2000. In Lamontagne v. J.L. Richards & Associates Limited, the employer had … Read more »