Labour Pains

Can an employee be made to repay her employer for hours for which she was paid but did no actual work? In Besse v. Reach CPA Inc , 2023 B...

Is the intentional destruction of company property cause for termination of employment without notice? Does it meet the higher burden of s...

On September 16, 2021, I published a post titled “Hope for Ontario's Employer Bar: The ONSC's Decision in Rahman v. Cannon Design ...

The law concerning the rights and responsibilities of Ontario’s employers to dismiss an employee “for cause” , and the rights of employee ...

This is an opinion piece and, yes, a bit of a rant. Since the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision in Waksdale v. Swegon North America Inc....

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

Is an employee’s failure (or blatant refusal) to follow an employer’s directions to protect public health – during a global pandemic – cau...

Is refusing to apologize to a co-worker, after a company’s finding of your having made inappropriate comments to that co-worker cause for ...

“A fiduciary who knows about wrongdoing committed against the beneficiary has a duty to tell the beneficiary.” That important lesson was ...

Does a termination clause that only allows an employer to terminate an employee without notice for “just cause” comply with the provision...

(c) istock/ilyast Does an employer require “just cause” to terminate the employment of an employee “on probation”? For the reasons that ...

Is “being reckless with the truth” as to whether a client has insurance coverage “just cause” for the termination of an insurance broker’s...

There is a cliché that crime does not pay. In the world of employment law, the most heinous crime that an employer can commit is to alleg...

A post by: Brent Craswell Employers often believe that an employee’s conduct should play a role in its obligations to him or her upon t...

Should employers be allowed to fire employees for their off-duty conduct? Although this blog has repeatedly considered the issue of whethe...

Can posts to one’s Facebook profile about a co-worker be grounds for “just cause” for dismissal? In yet another case from the labour worl...

Did the Federal Court’s decision in Atomic Energy of Canada Limited v Wilson , 2013 FC 733 put an end to federally regulated employees’ ...

Is overstating one’s credentials as a salesperson and then failing to complete a single sale of the employer’s wares within 40 days of co...

Can an employer refuse to pay out a severance package after it offers it to an employee and the employee agrees to accept it? That was ess...

(c) istock/Bicho_raro In a case sure to surprise some working parents, an Ontario Deputy Judge has ruled that the failure of a nanny to ...