Employers frequently experience mental “frustration” when managing absenteeism in the workplace. This frustration should not, however, be confused with the legal concept of “frustration of contract”. Frustration in the legal sense, arises…
On February 7, 2019, a judicial review hearing of a critical pay equity decision commenced in Toronto. In this case, the Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) is challenging the 2016 findings of the…
The Minister of Children, Community and Social Services, the Hon. Lisa MacLeod, announced reforms to the Ontario Autism Program (OAP) today to attempt to address the approximate 75% of children with autism…
Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) has recently issued a policy on medical cannabis: Operational Policy Manual #17-01-10, Cannabis for Medical Purposes.[1] The purpose of the policy is to establish guidelines…
In Canadian Elevator Industry Welfare Trust Fund v Skinner, 2018 NSCA 31,[1] the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal ruled that the non-coverage of medical cannabis in a private benefit plan was not…
Organizations in the health, children’s and developmental services sectors have reacted with dismay to the recent arbitration decision involving a nurse who stole drugs from patients and then falsified patient records to…
What a tumultuous year 2018 has been for employment and labour law! At PooranLaw we have spent the 2018 tracking, analyzing and travelling the province to educate and inform employers and families…
On October 23, 2018, the PC government introduced Bill 47, the Making Ontario Open for Business Act (“Bill 47”). If passed, Bill 47 will repeal a number of changes made by the Liberal government’s Fair…
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