Service Area: Employment, Human Rights and Labour

The number of workplace policies that employers need to develop is constantly multiplying.  Recently, the need for a Bring Your Own Device Policy is appearing[...]

It is a general principle of employment law that an employee who is terminated from employment is required to make reasonable efforts to find other[...]

Have you ever wondered what would happen to your job if a family member got sick and needed you to care for them? What Protections[...]

A recent court decision reaffirmed that employers need to be careful when drafting restrictive covenants, commonly known as non-compete clauses. In a recent decision of[...]

  Privacy in the workplace requires a balance between employer and employee rights. A recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal has expanded privacy[...]

Seventy-seven percent (77%) of all applications received by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal in 2010-2011 arose in the workplace.[i] Presentation by David Wright, Associate Chair[...]

Human rights legislation prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee on the basis of “family status”. Does this protection require an employer to modify[...]

I am an associate in the firm’s Employment, Human Rights and Labour practice group. I advise employers and employees on a wide range of labour[...]

I practice exclusively in civil litigation, where I focus on contract, construction and commercial disputes, as well as litigious estates, and employment disputes. I act[...]