Labour Pains

Are these words automatically fatal to a contractual termination provision post the Court of Appeal’s decision in Waksdale v. Swegon North...

Should courts void contractual termination provisions if such provisions have even the remote potential to, at some later point in time, ...

“Employment law isn’t real.” Mention to my father that to which I have dedicated my intellectual focus and professional pursuits and he w...

Quit while you’re ahead and leave the numbers out of it. Those are the fundamental lessons from the decision of the Court of Appeal for ...

If an employment agreement contains one provision concerning the way by which one’s employer could terminate the agreement/employment wit...

Will an arbitration clause in independent contractor agreement always be found to be illegal, if, notwithstanding that to which the parti...

Can an employer and employee agree by contract that the laws of Ontario, Canada will apply to terms of their employment relationship, eve...

Silence is golden. According to that proverbial saying it is sometimes better to say nothing than to speak. So what does this ancient sa...

Everyone knows that in the classic children's game, Rock, Paper, Scissors , scissors beat paper. But can scissors beat statutes? To...

What is the legal effect of being “on probation”? While this blog has looked at the issue of an employee being employed pursuant to a wri...