Labour Pains

Can an employee sue her former supervisor for sexual harassment if she has signed a Full and Final Release in favour of her former employ...

Can an employer force an employee to wear a shoe with an elevated heel – aka “high heels” – if wearing such shoes is not required for th...

(c) istock/vadimguzhva “The motion for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs fixed at $1,000.” With those thirteen simple words, Ontar...

(c) istock/seriga On April 1, 2012, I published my first post to what was then called “Sean Bawden’s Law Blog for Suddenly Unemployed.” ...

Will the recently proposed changes to the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act finally bring about the workplace violence and hara...

From time-to-time a decision will come along that will leave me not only confused, but frustrated. Wyllie v Larche , 2015 ONSC 4747 is o...

A lot has already been said about Target’s abrupt decision to close all of its Canadian stores; but one story has dominated headlines more...

How does requiring an executive to purchase shares in his employer’s company affect the employee’s reasonable notice period in the event ...

Is the limit on the receipt of WSIB loss of earnings benefits unconstitutional because is discriminates on the basis of age? According to...

Can publicly announcing one’s intention to retire from employment serve to reduce an employee’s entitlement to wrongful dismissal damages...

For years this blog has taken the position that if a termination provision in an employment contract does not technically violate the pro...

For those who feel like their workplaces are already too much like a prison, May 20, 2015, will not be a happy day. For on that day the w...

On November 20, 2014, unpaid interns in Ontario gained a modicum of protection under some of Ontario’s employment laws. No, the governmen...

"Will litigate for food?" Earlier this month a community legal clinic in Oshawa drew fire after it advertised a 10-month unpaid...

To what extent must an employer investigate allegations of sexual harassment? This question comes to the fore as a result of a recent epi...

A recent decision from the Supreme Court of Canada, in which leave to appeal a decision from the Court of Appeal of Alberta, Beaulieu v U...

Is it be ‘illegal’ to ask someone in a job interview whether he or she smokes cigarettes? While the answer remains unclear, there is a ...

At the end of 2013, this blog proclaimed the decision of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario in Fair v. Hamilton-Wentworth District Schoo...

From 2000-2006, there was a television program called “Malcolm in the Middle.” The show was called as much because the lead subject was th...

Does being treated unfairly in employment and simply having a disability, being a member of a visible of invisible minority, or otherwise...