Labour Pains

If you are an employer in the service industry, and your largest client introduces a new rule or policy that imposes new requirements on y...

Is a stated “desire” to return to work, at some point, and without more information, sufficient to rebut the medical evidence that a cont...

Does frustration of contract for illness or injury require an act of an employer? In Hoekstra v Rehability Occupational Therapy Inc. , 2...

Is the continued receipt of long-term disability (“LTD”) benefits evidence that one’s contract of employment has become legally “frustrat...

(c) istock/Hailshadow Some decisions are just textbooks on employment law. They are ‘must read’ decisions for anyone looking to practice...

Image ©iStock.com/DrPAS If an employee dies due to a terminal illness (e.g. cancer), is his estate entitled to severance pay? In the cas...

Sandra McDonald’s legal saga against the Embassy of the United States at Ottawa is a long and interesting story. On July 17, 2012, Ms. Mc...

Can an employer in Ontario legally fire someone who gets injured at work and then, as a result, becomes unable to work? According to a ca...

One may recall the story of Elsa Torrejon, who in 2009 was fired from her employer, Weston Property Management, after disclosing that she...

One of the joys of being a “lawyer for the suddenly unemployed” is that one gets to work in the field of overlapping insurance policies and ...

(c) istock/davidmariuz In an earlier post , I commented on the effect of O.Reg 288/01 on the doctrine of "frustration" with r...

Many employees who become chronically ill, are injured in a workplace accident, or get hurt in some other type of accident and are unable...