Employment Law and Labour Law

New equal pay obligations under the Canada Labour Code require federally regulated employers to ensure equal wage rates for employees performing substantially the same work in the same establishment, regardless of employment status. Employers must also respond to employee wage-review requests within 90 days and may need to provide back-pay adjustments.

Canada's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy introduces a 'pro-worker' framework for AI adoption in the workplace, emphasizing augmentation over displacement and signaling future policy directions on algorithmic bias, transparency...

Kyle Van Schie first joined Soloway Wright as a student during law school before becoming a lawyer in the firm’s Employment, Labour & Public Law Group upon his call to the bar.

Growing companies often find their finance teams struggling to keep pace with business complexity. When reporting cycles extend, forecasts go unused, and cash flow becomes reactive, it signals that finance has shifted from driving clarity to merely keeping up. Understanding when to evolve your finance function—and how outsourcing can add the missing strategic layers—becomes critical to maintaining control and supporting informed decision-making.

DRG Outsourcing (Pty) Ltd retrenched three employees in January 2023. The employees referred an unfair dismissal dispute, which found its way to the Labour Court.

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

Dans l'affaire Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique, section locale 4041 c. Air Transat, 2026 CanLII 44306 (CA SA) (la « Décision »), le tribunal d'arbitrage présidé par Me Nathalie Massicotte...

Le gouvernement du Québec a récemment approuvé un nouveau Règlement concernant les mesures visant à prévenir ou à faire cesser la violence à caractère sexuel en vertu de la Loi sur la santé et la sécurité du travail.

Can employers in safety-sensitive industries impose total bans on cannabis use, even for off-duty consumption? A recent Canadian arbitration decision examines the boundaries of employer authority in the aviation sector, where public safety concerns intersect with employee privacy rights in the post-legalization era.

The Tax on Split Income (TOSI) rules remain among the most complex and misunderstood areas of Canadian private corporation tax planning.

New equal pay obligations under the Canada Labour Code require federally regulated employers to ensure equal wage rates for employees performing substantially the same work in the same establishment, regardless of employment status. Employers must also respond to employee wage-review requests within 90 days and may need to provide back-pay adjustments.

The Ontario Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Friel v. HUB International Limited, 2026 ONCA 313, illustrates how the structure and drafting of compensation arrangements can determine not only substantive rights...