When an employer permits an employee to retract a previously-accepted resignation, the employer can insist upon modified terms to the employment contract as a condition of continued employment, even where there has been no interruption of work.
Read MoreDon't let the name scare you. A Record of Employment isn't a centralized document accessible to employers detailing your past work performance or discipline history. It's just the name of a form used by Service Canada to assess your entitlement to Employment Insurance Benefits.
Read MoreHuman rights prohibitions against discrimination "with respect to employment" can extend to consultants, contractors, or other non-employee workers.
Read MoreOntario has three legal regimes which address gender wage discrimination: human rights laws against workplace discrimination, employment standards for "equal pay for equal work," and pay equity legislation for "equal pay for work of equal value."
Read MoreYes, but with some restrictions. Ontario employers can direct when employees take vacation, but employment standards legislation requires employers to at least let employees take their minimum vacation entitlement within ten months of it accruing.
Read MoreFor that matter, what is "unjust dismissal" or "constructive dismissal?" This article provides some brief definitions for these and other bits of employment law legalese.
Read MoreAn Ontario employee was ordered to pay her former employer's legal fees after she made a "substantially unsuccessful" bid to sue her employer following its decision to rehire "her abuser," a former supervisor fired ten years earlier amidst sexual harassment complaints.
Read MoreThe Court of Appeal for Ontario has declined to recognize "harassment" as a free-standing basis to sue in Ontario.
Read MoreFeaturing a fancy chart showing how many months of pay Ontario judges awarded dismissed employees.
Read MoreIn 2017, the Court of Appeal for Ontario put an end to employers using “severability clauses” to cure contractual violations of employment standards. But in 2018, the court has approved the use of “saving clauses.”
Read MoreAnother recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision clarifies aspects of the law on employee bonus entitlements after dismissal.
Read MoreA review of recent Ontario Court of Appeal cases on employee bonus entitlements after employment ends.
Read MoreHow employers can change your contract mid-employment.
Read MoreThe termination clause in your employment contract needs the right language: a review of Ontario cases.
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