by Nancy Shapiro | Mar 2, 2026 | Employment Law
It is reasonable to expect that the period we are in right now economically with its high rates of unemployment, increased tariffs and economic uncertainty will impact employee entitlements to reasonable notice on termination of employment. The factors which are...
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...
