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What is the effect of section 67.2 of the Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000 , which generally prohibits entering into non-compete agr...

The dirty secret of contract law is that a contract is only as good as a party’s ability to enforce it. Typically, this blog focuses on th...

When is a non-solicitation provision in an employment contract actually a non-competition agreement? The answer is, when it prevents the ...

What are the tax implications of including a non-competition clause in an agreement for the sale of a business? Guest author Chad Saikaley,...

Will the Ontario courts enforce a non-competition agreement and grant an injunction if the employee signs an agreement without legal...

Can a five-year non-competition agreement be legally enforceable? If it is attached to the sale of a part of your business it can be, says...

Is the term “United States of America” ambiguous? In a decision with serious potential ramifications for employment law, the Honourable Ju...

What can employers learn from Beyonce’s hit song, “Single Ladies”? A surprising amount, I would suggest, when it comes to drafting non-co...

Does the fact that an employee signed a non-competition agreement have any impact on the reasonable amount of notice of termination of em...

The Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled that a non-competition and non-solicitation agreement used by a construction company was unenfor...

How enforceable is a non-solicitation agreement in an Ontario employment contract? According to a decision released earlier today by ...

For those looking for general information about Wrongful Dismissal under Ontario law, please click this link . For most people who fin...

As someone who both practices employment law and blogs, tweets, whatever verb Facebook becomes, a question that is often put to me by per...

(c) istock/Tzido “Blue-pencil severance” is an extraordinary remedy, by which a court will strike out certain words of a contract in ord...