On May 23, 2017, the Ontario Government released The Changing Workplaces Review: An Agenda for Workplace Rights Final Report. The report reviewed numerous aspects of our workforce and the legislation that applies to it. A portion of the report included a statistic that found a significant increase in the number of individuals that are self-employed
Until the UK withdraws from the EU, EU law will continue to apply in the UK and so the rights of EU citizens and their family members to live and work in the UK remain unchanged. However, after Brexit, free movement rights will come to an end. On 26 June 2017 Theresa May briefed MPs
In Benjamin v. Cascades Canada ULC, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice reviewed the law surrounding an employee’s duty to mitigate their common law reasonable notice damages arising from wrongful dismissal. In such cases, the onus is on the employer to establish a failure to mitigate, and that onus requires the employer to establish
Currently, employees covered by the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA) are entitled to at least two weeks of vacation time after completing 12 continuous months of employment (whether active or inactive). Vacation pay is addressed separately from vacation time, and employees are currently entitled to at least 4% of their wages as vacation pay.
Under the current Labour Relations Act, 1995 (“LRA”), once a bargaining unit is certified, any changes to the composition of the bargaining unit are voluntary. Bill 148 proposals, if passed, would amend the LRA to provide that:
In Fabrene Inc. v International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Local Lodge 2922 employees who were Union Grievance Committee (“UGC”) members unsuccessfully argued that the hours they spent attending Labour Management meetings on their days off constituted compensable overtime.
Factual Background
The UGC members worked 12-hour day shifts on Monday and Tuesday,
The recently released Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act (Bill 148) proposes considerable changes to Ontario’s Employment Standards Act (ESA), including a number of new equal pay for equal work provisions.
If passed, Bill 148 would considerably expand the current ESA equal pay provisions, which only contemplate equal pay between the sexes. In particular, the proposed
An employer who dismisses an employee for making derogatory comments in the workplace must prove both that the employee made the comments, and that the comments are objectively derogatory. In South African Breweries (Pty) Ltd v Heindrich Hansen and others (30 May 2017, CA06/2016) the Labour Appeal Court (LAC) dealt specifically with the
On June 19, House Government Bill C-4, « An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code, the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act, the Public Service Labour Relations Act and the Income Tax Act », received Royal Assent after an interesting showdown between the Government and the Senate.
The objective of this Bill, which constituted
The scheduling of work is one of many areas that would see significant revamping under Ontario’s proposed Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act (Bill 148). Bill 148 was recently released in response to the highly anticipated Changing Workplaces Review Final Report, which recommended sweeping changes to Ontario’s Employment Standards Act (ESA) and Labour Relations Act.