Canada Announces Federal Holiday to Mourn Queen Elizabeth II

This is the first installment in a three-part series of articles focused on employers’ duties under Ontario’s Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005. Part one addresses the scope and applicability of the law to various businesses. A misconception exists that the Accessibility Standards for Customer Service (usually referred to as the “customer service standards”) under Ontario’s Accessibility

Many employers, particularly those that employ a significant number of part-time and casual workers, will be quite pleased by the Ontario government’s decision to reverse a controversial part of the amendments to labour and employment legislation that it introduced last year, specifically provisions relating to the calculation of public holiday pay. As we detailed here, the

On May 30, 2017, the Ontario government announced a plan to introduce legislation entitled “The Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017,” that, if enacted, could mean significant changes to several employment standards and labour relations rules. The text of the announcement is available on the Ontario government’s website. Highlights of the proposed changes include a significant