Questions are being raised about the handling of harassment complaints by the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) leadership after a document has revealed that the organization was aware of [...]

When Kim Davis, an elected clerk in Rowan County, Ky., refused to sign a gay couple’s marriage license in August, she may well have known the move would be provocative. What she couldn’t predict [...]

Fall is a season of new beginnings. Students go back to school and businesses recruit new talent to help them enact bold plans for the year. Because it is a time when exciting new employment [...]

For employers across Canada, the recent data leak of client information taken from the extramarital dating site Ashley Madison has initiated widespread discussions about workplace confidentiality [...]

As you have undoubtedly heard, the confidential user data of extramarital dating site Ashley Madison was recently leaked.  The data leak, which included users’ personal emails and credit card [...]

As many employers know, if one’s employment is terminated without cause and the employee is provided pay in lieu of reasonable notice, the employee is nonetheless entitled to his or her entire [...]

Earlier this year, Ontario’s Ministry of Labour (the “Ministry”) conducted an enforcement blitz of temporary help agencies (“Agencies”). When conducting enforcement blitzes, the Ministry inspects [...]

In February 2015 the Ontario Ministry of Labour appointed C. Michael Mitchell, formerly of Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP, and the Honourable John C. Murray, a former Ontario Superior Court Justice, [...]

With much anticipation after the introduction of Bill 56, An Act to require the establishment of the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan in 2014, the Ontario government recently unveiled details on [...]

The summer season results in significant changes in employee behaviour.  A 2012 North America-wide study by Captivate Network, a leading digital media company,  entitled “Summer Hours are Bad for [...]