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- Ontario Gets a New Minimum Wage on October 1
On October 1, 2022 the lowest allowable hourly rate for most employees in Ontario will increase from $15.00 to $15.50. That’s the headline. Here are some of the details: Ontario’s minimum standards for most provincially-regulated workers are legislated by the Employment Standards Act, 2000. In 201 … Read more »
- Court of Appeal Rings Employer’s Bell on Appeal of Wrongful Dismissal Award
The decision to take a wrongful dismissal matter to trial is one that employers should not make lightly. That goes doubly for pursuing an appeal, since the threshold for overturning decisions of the lower courts is usually a significant one. In other words, winning appeals is hard in even the best … Read more »
- Everybody Loves Raymond: Favourable Decision by Arbitrator Raymond Finds Three-dose Vaccination Policy to be Reasonable
Recently, we saw an arbitrator strike down a two-dose vaccination policies (FCA Canada Inc. v Unifor, Locals 195, 444, 1285, 2022 CanLII 52913 (ON LA) which we blogged about here), for being unreasonable because two-doses does not protect against newer strains of COVID-19. The decision in Regional … Read more »
- Employer Convicted for COVID-related violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act
Restrictions have eased and many mask and vaccine mandates have been lifted, but the impacts of COVID-19 in the workplace are still here, as one employer recently found out. The Ministry of Labour released the details in a Court Bulletin outlining the conviction of a farming operation for failing to … Read more »
- “If It’s Good Enough For You, It’s Good Enough For Me”, Says Ontario Court Of Appeal: Employee’s Notice Period Reduced for Failing to Accept a Comparable Position
In Humphrey v. Mene Inc., 2022 ONCA 531, the Court of Appeal for Ontario addressed the employer’s appeal and employee’s cross appeal of the decision by the motion judge in Humphrey v. Mene, 2021 ONSC 2539. FACTS In this case, the employee was employed by the Company for approximately three years. At … Read more »