As of July 1, 2014, the Small Claims Court Rules were amended. One of the biggest developments is that a new pilot project was launched by the Ministry of the Attorney General in which [...]
On December 13, 2014, the Ontario Legislature carried Bill 147; An Act to amend the Human Rights Code with respect to the awarding of costs of proceedings (the ”Bill”) through first reading. The [...]
This year, the Ontario Human Rights Commission released its Policy on preventing discrimination because of Gender Identity and Gender Expression (“Policy”), which is a helpful guide for employers [...]
The CRTC recently reported that it has received a record number of 50,000+ CASL complaints in just over a month since CASL came into force. This high volume of complaints is a good indicator of [...]
In the recent case of McCormick v. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, the Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously ruled that generally speaking, an equity member of a partnership is not an “employee” [...]
The Ontario Human Rights Commission recently released its new “Policy on preventing discrimination based on mental health disabilities and addictions” (the “Policy”). The Policy is a good [...]
On October 29, 2014, Ontario’s Bill 21, the Employment Standards Amendment Act (Leaves to Help Families), 2014, will come into force, enacting three new statutory leaves for employees under the [...]
Although the internship provision in Ontario’s Employment Standards Act (“ESA”) remains the same, the Ontario Ministry of Labour (“MOL”) has scheduled a compliance blitz from April to June 2014 [...]
As a follow up to our February 2014 edition of the “In the Know” newsletter, on May 2, 2014, the Federal Court of Appeal issued a decision in A.G. Canada v. Johnstone (“Johnstone”). This case is [...]
