Labour Pains

Once an employee has been afforded accommodation for his disability, is the specific accommodation set in stone forever, or can an employ...

Is a stated “desire” to return to work, at some point, and without more information, sufficient to rebut the medical evidence that a cont...

Does the inability to reliably test for cannabis create an undue hardship for employers with respect to their duty to accommodate the use...

(c) istock/utah778 Is an employee required to submit to an independent medical examination, an “IME”, by a doctor of his employer’s choos...

Is an employee required to prove that his employer “failed to accommodate” his parental status in order to succeed in a human rights case...

Is a request to take leave without pay from mid-July to the end of August, in order to care for one’s disabled child, a reasonable reques...

Can an employee suffering from the disease of alcoholism be punished for her behaviour if her disease contributed to the behaviour under r...

Is a woman's miscarriage a “disability” under Ontario’s Human Rights Code ? Based on the media headlines following a decision by the ...

Employees who become injured either at work or as a result of their workplace are especially vulnerable to losing their employment. This ...

The Ontario Human Rights Code is a powerful law, capable of addressing serious systemic issues related to, amongst other things, employm...

What will be the court’s censure for an employer’s unwillingness to accommodate its employees’ childcare arrangements, except where legit...

What can the American television programme Law and Order teach us about employment law in Ontario? Not a lot, really. But the opening lin...

Earlier this year I wrote about a decision of the Public Service Labour Relations and Employment Board (“PSLREB”), in which Member Augustu...

Image: istock/Imilian “You have the right to remain silent.” Those seven words are a fundamental principle of the Canadian criminal jus...

Are work requirements that impact on an employee’s breastfeeding schedules discrimination and, if so, are they discrimination on the basis...

Is it be ‘illegal’ to ask someone in a job interview whether he or she smokes cigarettes? While the answer remains unclear, there is a ...

On May 2, 2014, the Federal Court of Appeal confirmed that employers have a legal obligation to accommodate their employees' “childca...

Can an employer in Ontario legally fire someone who gets injured at work and then, as a result, becomes unable to work? According to a ca...

After years of waiting, the first decision from an Ontario Superior Court judge to award damages pursuant to section 46.1 of the Ontario H...

Is it a discriminatory practice to ask an employee to produce a doctor's note confirming that she is in a "normal" state of h...