by Nancy Shapiro | Aug 8, 2022 | Employment Law
The Ontario Court of Appeal in the 2019 decision of Dawe v. the Equitable Life Insurance Company of Canada held that only exceptional circumstances would support the award of a notice period in excess of 24 months in relation to the termination of someone’s...
by Nancy Shapiro | May 9, 2022 | Employment Law
It is not a criminal act to record conversations where you have the consent of one of the parties, typically by the one who is doing the recording. However, we now have a case out of British Columbia finding, criminal or not, it was an invasion of privacy and...
by Nancy Shapiro | Feb 22, 2022 | Employment Law
In a recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the principles in the now infamous Waksdale v. Swegon North America Inc., 2020 ONCA 391 decision were applied to a fixed term contract, striking out a termination clause where the ‘for cause’...
by Nancy Shapiro | Oct 22, 2021 | Covid-19, Employment Law
What is the hot issue in every workplace right now? Vaccine policies of course. We have yet to see a court or administrative tribunal definitively answer whether vaccine policies violate health privacy laws or employee privacy generally or whether an employer’s...
by Nancy Shapiro | May 17, 2021 | Employment Law
In a seminal decision released on March 18, 2021, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has issued a finding supporting a claim of gender-based discrimination in relation to the unconscientious perception of the applicant as a woman and the gender bias which was...
