Canada: Employment and Workforce Wellbeing

The Commercial List Users' Committee (CLUC) held its annual Education & Social Day on May 28. The annual event offers an opportunity for members of the bar...

La Cour divisionnaire de l'Ontario (la « Cour ») a infirmé une sentence arbitrale rendue en 2024 selon laquelle les mesures disciplinaires ne pouvaient jamais constituer une réponse...

The Court found that WestJet (the "Defendant") unreasonably applied its vaccination policy to proceed with a just cause termination of an unvaccinated worker

The recent decision by Arbitrator Herman in Lakeridge Health v CUPE, Local 6364, 2023 CanLII 33942 (ON LA), confirms the reasonableness of a hospital's mandatory vaccination...

Conflit jurisprudentiel en vue sur la portée rétroactive de la Loi modernisant le régime de santé et de sécurité du travail

Since the Act to modernize the occupational health and safety regime (SQ 2021, c. 27) (the "MOHSA") came into force on October 6, 2021, the Administrative Labour Tribunal (the "ALT")...

In 2020, the Federal Government introduced the Canada Emergency Response Benefit ("CERB"), which was a governmental benefit payment eligible individuals could receive if they were directly affected by COVID-19, including those who lost their jobs or suffered a significant reduction in earnings because of COVID-19...

With trends such as remote working, air filtration, masking, hand cleaning and vaccination policies, the pandemic has undoubtedly left an indelible mark on all workplaces.

The pandemic has had a broad-ranging impact on employment law since March 2020. To wrap up 2022, employers may find it helpful to have a check-in on how Canadian courts and labour arbitrators...