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Employment law and labour law articles and thought leadership, podcasts, videos and webinars from expert sources across the legal world. Explore articles covering topics such as Discrimination, Employee Benefits and Compensation, Health and Safety, Unfair/Wrongful Dismissal, Whistleblowing, Employment Rights, Outsourcing and Redundancy.

Disability Insurance: 4 Myths And Realities

Disability insurance: doesn't the province cover that? Isn't it baked into my employee benefits? Myths abound when it comes to crucial coverage that protects your paycheque.

Canada Employment

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Lawyers Financial

Commentary On Vaes C. Service D'administration PCR Ltée — Reminder To Employers: Be Careful About The Circumstances And Manner In Which Employment Is Terminated

Employers often face tough decisions when managing their day-to-day business. Employee care and management are undoubtedly crucial elements in any company, regardless of its circumstances.

Canada Employment

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Langlois Lawyers, LLP

Legislative Amendments Recognize System Principals In Ontario's School System

On Dec. 4, 2024, Bill 227, the Cutting Red Tape, Building Ontario Act, 2024, SO 2024, c 28 received Royal Assent. Among other legislative changes, Bill 227 amended the Education Act, RSO 1990, c. E.2...

Canada Employment

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Preparing For Ontario's New Pay Transparency Rules

Effective January 1, 2026, employers in Ontario will be required to comply with new pay transparency rules relating to their publicly advertised job postings.

Canada Employment

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Cassels

Hiring Temporary Foreign Workers: 6 Key Employment Contract Considerations

Canada Employment

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McInnes Cooper

Wage Hikes And Legal Spikes: What Employers Need To Know About Minimum Wage

Canada Employment

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Miller Titerle + Company

Hospital Worker's Termination For Misconduct Overturned By Alberta Arbitration Board

Canada Employment

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Fasken

Streamline Your Year-End Payroll Process: Start Now And Save Time Later

Canada Employment

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RSM Canada

Congédiement d'un employé d'hôpital pour inconduite : un conseil d'arbitrage en décide autrement

Canada Employment

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Fasken (French)

The Latest Changes To The Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000

Canada Employment

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Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart

Compliance Considerations For Multi-Jurisdictional Employers

Canada Employment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Confirming The Historic Trade-Off: A Worker's Civil Action Is Statute-Barred When Injury Arose Out Of And In The Course Of Employment

Worldwide Employment

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Roper Greyell LLP – Employment and Labour Lawyers

Harcèlement et violence au travail : ce que la jurisprudence récente nous apprend

Canada Employment

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BCF Business Law

Harassment And Workplace Violence: What Recent Case Law Teaches Us

Canada Employment

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BCF Business Law

Another Termination Provision Bites The Dust: Baker v. Van Dolder's Home Team Inc.

Canada Employment

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Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Landlords May Soon Need To Be On (Top Of) Drugs: Unpacking Ontario's Bill 10

Canada Real Estate

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Robins Appleby LLP

"How Can We Help?" Considering Accommodation For Persons With Disabilities In Workplace Investigations

Canada Employment

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Rubin Thomlinson LLP

Increased LIFE Offering Limits And Other Measures To Support The Competitiveness Of Canada's Capital Markets And Help Companies Grow Introduced By Canadian Securities Regulators

Canada Commercial

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Cassels

BC Supreme Court Comments On After-Acquired Cause

Canada Employment

BC

Boughton Law Corporation

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Significant Changes Ahead: New Measures To Limit Temporary Foreign Worker Program In Canada

Canada Employment

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Green and Spiegel

RADIO INTERVIEW – CityNews (Video)

Canada Employment

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Green and Spiegel

I'm Listening: BC Appeal Court Confirms That Secretly Recording Colleagues Constitutes Just Cause

Canada Employment

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Stikeman Elliott LLP

La Fête Est Terminée : La Colombie-Britannique Annonce L'entrée En Vigueur De Normes D'emploi Pour Les Travailleurs De Plateformes Numériques

Canada Employment

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Stikeman Elliott LLP

Nouvelles de l'Ontario : le projet de loi 149 propose diverses modifications, notamment les obligations de transparence salariale et de divulgation du recours à l'IA dans les offres d'emploi et le projet de loi 79 entre en vigueur

Canada Employment

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Stikeman Elliott LLP

Ontario Updates: Bill 149 Proposes Variety Of Changes Including Pay Transparency And AI Disclosure Requirements For Job Postings, Bill 79 Comes Into Force

Canada Employment

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Stikeman Elliott LLP

The Gig Is Up: British Columbia Announces Incoming Employment Standards For App-Based Gig Workers

Canada Employment

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Stikeman Elliott LLP

AODA Reminder: Approaching Deadline (December 31, 2023) To File Accessibility Compliance Reports

Canada Employment

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Stikeman Elliott LLP

Update On The Pay Transparency Act: British Columbia Government Finally Transparent With Employers On Reporting Requirements

Canada Employment

SE

Stikeman Elliott LLP

The Wild West: Alberta Labour Board Orders Suspension Of Union Dues For Wildcat Strike

Canada Employment

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Stikeman Elliott LLP

Whistleblowing

Labour and Employment Comparative Guide

Labour and Employment Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Canada, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries

Canada Employment

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Guide To Canadian White Collar Defence And Investigations (Video)

Organizations and individuals face ever-increasing government oversight and regulatory power to investigate alleged infractions and secure serious sanctions...

Worldwide Employment

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Torys LLP

British Columbia Supreme Court Finds Workplace Investigation Witnesses Akin To Whistleblowers

A recent decision of the British Columbia Supreme Court (the "Court"), Starrs v. Troczynski, 2024 BCSC 2267 ("Troczynski"), serves as a useful reminder to employers about when workplace investigation reports...

Canada Employment

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Five Key Employment And Labour Law Changes Impacting Quebec Employers In 2025

Canada Employment

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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Cinq modifications législatives en droit du travail et de l'emploi qui auront un impact sur les employeurs au Québec en 2025

Canada Employment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Court Affirms Protections For Whistleblower Employees: A Milestone Victory In Employment Rights

Canada Employment

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Monkhouse Law

One Size Doesn't Fit All When It Comes To Investigating Employee Misconduct

Canada Employment

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Rubin Thomlinson LLP

Beyond Harassment And Discrimination Investigations: Investigating Employee Honesty, Loyalty, And Integrity

Canada Employment

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Rubin Thomlinson LLP

Confidentiality Limited: When Anonymous Whistleblowers Must Be Identified

Canada Employment

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Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP

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Human Resources

Unproductive? Systems And Processes Not To Blame?: Respond With Performance Or Disability Management

In this period of continued economic uncertainty, workers are often asked to do more with less.

Canada Employment

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Miller Thomson LLP

The HR Space: Excessive Absenteeism: When Enough is Enough

Employers often wonder when an employee’s "innocent" or no-fault absences reach a level that warrants termination. Can these employees ever be fired? Yes, is the answer from one New Brunswick labour arbitrator, in Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 1252 and Vitalité Health Network.

Canada Employment

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Fasken

Sale Of Assets : What Rules Apply To Restrictive Covenants When The Buyer Employs The Seller?

The important question in this case was to determine whether the restrictive covenants were included as part of an employment contract or business sale.

Canada Employment

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Stikeman Elliott LLP

Measures For Employers Who Are Victims Of Unfair Competition And Theft Of Confidential Information

Canada Employment

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Stikeman Elliott LLP

The HR Space: Québec Contractors Can't Have Their Cake And Eat It Too

Canada Employment

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Fasken

Applying The ITAR Rules And Managing Human Resources: Where Do Things Stand Today?

Canada Employment

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Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP

The HR Space: Is Excessive Internet Use Time Theft?

Canada Employment

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Fasken

British Columbia Says Bulling And Harassment "Are Not Acceptable At Any Level" With Bill 14

Canada Employment

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Dentons

Employment Contract Amendments – A Landmine For Employers

Canada Employment

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McMillan LLP

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Retirement, Superannuation & Pensions

Fired Or Retired? Mitigation, Mathematical Mistakes, And Miscommunication In Wrongful Dismissals

Terminating an employee, especially after a long tenure, can be a turbulent and distressing experience.

Canada Employment

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Tierney Stauffer LLP

Family Office Outsourcing

Family offices today face growing complexity driven by generational transitions, a growing number of family stakeholders...

Canada Employment

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RSM Canada

BLG obtient la nomination d'un séquestre pour des résidences pour personnes âgées (RPA) en difficulté

Au terme d'une audition contestée, BLG a obtenu la nomination de Raymond Chabot inc. à titre de séquestre aux actifs de 9444-4486 Québec inc.

Canada Insolvency

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Legislative Update Report No. 2025-09 Le Bulletin D'actualités Législatives

Canada Government

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Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

British Columbia Financial Services Authority Releases Pension-specific Information Security Guideline

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Dentons

How Are Foreign Pension Plans, Income From Foreign Pension Plans Treated By CRA In Canada? A Canadian Tax Lawyer Gives Inside Scoop

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Rotfleisch & Samulovitch P.C.

Contributing Factors: 5 Reasons A Pension Plan Is Money Well Spent

Canada Employment

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Lawyers Financial

What To Consider When Thinking About Retirement

Canada Employment

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Nelligan Law

'Made In Canada': Workforce Considerations In Times Of Tariffs

Canada Employment

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Ius Laboris

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Discrimination, Disability & Sexual Harassment

Disability Insurance: 4 Myths And Realities

Disability insurance: doesn't the province cover that? Isn't it baked into my employee benefits? Myths abound when it comes to crucial coverage that protects your paycheque.

Canada Employment

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Lawyers Financial

Hospital Worker's Termination For Misconduct Overturned By Alberta Arbitration Board

In a recent decision, an Alberta arbitration board has ordered a unionized hospital employee to be reinstated with back pay after the employee was terminated for cause for alleged misconduct.

Canada Employment

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Fasken

Court Of Appeal Summaries (June 2-6, 2025)

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of June 2, 2025.

Canada Litigation

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Blaney McMurtry LLP

Congédiement d'un employé d'hôpital pour inconduite : un conseil d'arbitrage en décide autrement

Canada Employment

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Fasken (French)

Harcèlement et violence au travail : ce que la jurisprudence récente nous apprend

Canada Employment

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BCF Business Law

Harassment And Workplace Violence: What Recent Case Law Teaches Us

Canada Employment

BB

BCF Business Law

Employment And Labour Montréal Newsletter – Issue 7 / June 2025

Canada Employment

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Dentons

Navigating Employee Sick Leave And Medical Documentation

Canada Employment

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Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

What To Do When You Receive A Demand Letter From A Terminated Employee's Lawyer:

Canada Employment

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Taylor McCaffrey

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Latest Videos

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Navigating Employer Obligations During Economic Uncertainty (Video)

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Siskinds LLP

High Wage LMIA – What Is A HIGH WAGE LMIA? (Video)

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INGWE

Woman Suing Former SickKids Doctor For Sexual Assault Finds History Of Allegations (Video)

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Gluckstein Lawyers

Tout connaitre sur la Loi 42 (Video)

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Fasken (French)

Navigating Executive Compensation With Confidence (Video)

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Fasken

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