by Amanda Chapman | Oct 26, 2021 | Employment
HOT TOPIC ALERT – It has become generally accepted in the Province of Ontario, that if you wish to return to the life you enjoyed pre-COVID-19 Pandemic, you will need to obtain your 2-dose COVID-19 Vax. That means if you wish to eat in a restaurant, attend a...
by Amanda Chapman | Oct 25, 2021 | Employment
Work – it is how 86% of Ontarians between the ages of 25 and 54 spend 1/3 of our lives. How we see our work and conduct that work has certainly changed during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Whether you are employed by a public or private company, the government or are...
by Amanda Chapman | Jun 4, 2021 | Employment, Wrongful Dismissal
Things continue to heat up in the employment law field. After over one year of the pandemic, we are also now seeing some COVID-19 employment cases coming through the courts. One such case is Coutinho v. Ocular Health Centre Ltd. [2021] O.J. No. 2237, where the Ontario...
by Samantha Brown | Jan 19, 2021 | Employment
On January 14, 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) denied the application for leave to appeal the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision in Swegon North America Inc. v. Waksdale, 2020 ONCA 391 (“Waksdale”). In a mad scramble, after what can only be described as a...
by Amanda Chapman | Apr 2, 2020 | Employment, Family
COVID-19 and Mental Health: Take Care of Yourself, Your Family and Your Business Many of us, even as essential workers, find ourselves working from home these days. It’s important that we do our best to support our employees, businesses, and of course friends and...
by Amanda Chapman | Mar 26, 2020 | Employment
COVID-19 and Your Employment: Part 1 Social Distancing is the new norm for Canadians as we all work to flatten the curve and lessen the spread of this COVID-19. Most of us have not lived during a pandemic. So, it’s no wonder our go-to phrase at this moment is that...
