by Nancy Shapiro | Oct 30, 2024 | Employment Law
In a recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal, the court considered a case of pandemic layoff and whether 9 months after the layoff occurred, the employee could be said to have condoned the layoff. The Court of Appeal relied upon one of its earlier decisions in...
by Nancy Shapiro | Oct 30, 2024 | Employment Law
The Ontario Court of Appeal has now issued a decision confirming the law with respect to workplace harassment investigation reports, wherein the investigator /author of the report, will not be liable for defamation for the findings in the report. In the case at bar,...
by Nancy Shapiro | Oct 30, 2024 | Employment Law
In a decision of the Honourable Mr. Justice Cavanagh released January 2, 2024, Boyer v. Callidus Capital Corp., [2024] O.J. No. 41, 2024 ONSC 20, the Court held that an employer had not clearly communicated the restrictive terms of its policies with respect to...
by Nancy Shapiro | Oct 28, 2024 | Employment Law
The issue of what a court will do when faced with a claim for variable compensation in the form of a Carried Interest Plan, much like a profit sharing plan, in which profit was recognized some 3-7 years following the initial investment, came before the Honourable Mr....
by Nancy Shapiro | Oct 24, 2024 | Employment Law
I was invited recently to speak at the HRPA Conference on the issue of bad faith damages. I was focusing on the history of these awards and quantum. Then on May 2, 2024, the Ontario Court of Appeal released a decision in Krmpotic v. Thunder Bay Electronics...
