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In 2019, the Ontario government appointed two external reviewers to conduct an operational review of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to help ensure the WSIB’s long-term sustainability and effectiveness. The…
New provincial legislation is being proposed to regulate PSWs and behavioural analysists. The newly proposed law, The Advancing Oversight and Planning in Ontario’s Health System Act, 2021, was introduced yesterday afternoon by…
The federal government recently implemented an Interim Order (retroactive to September 27, 2020, rendering any notice or severance entitlements paid after September 27, 2020 “not earnings” for the purposes of assessing entitlement…
Exceptions to Limiting Work to a Single Long-Term Care Home or Retirement Home On April 23, 2021, the government announced and implemented amendments to the Emergency Orders restricting workers in Long-term Care…
Late last week, the Government of Ontario signaled that they would be giving in to public demand for paid sick leave for the benefit of workers impacted by COVID-19. On Monday, the…
In a recent Ontario Labour Arbitration decision, OPSEU (Hyland) v Ontario (Solicitor General), 2021 CanLII 26637 (ON LA), the arbitrator was asked to decide, among other things, whether the employer failed to reasonably…
In a recent Ontario Labour Arbitration decision, CUPE Local 4400 grieved the Toronto District School Board’s policy decisions related to reimbursement for employee costs associated with remote work arrangements triggered by the…
In a recent Quebec decision, an arbitrator was asked to decide whether an employer was justified in following a strict and automatic application of a policy prohibiting an employee from performing their…
A recent Ontario decision has provided further guidance about the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic may have on the reasonable notice period owed to dismissed employees. The most recent decision, Marazzato v….
The Employment Standards Act, 2000 provides that an employee can take an infectious disease emergency leave (IDEL) if they will not be performing the duties of their position because, among other things,…
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