November 21, 2018 Further to our e2r™ Alert earlier this year, on March 20, 2018, Quebec’s Minister responsible for Labour, Dominique Vien, presented Bill 176: An Act to amend the Act respecting labour standards and other legislative provisions mainly to facilitate family-work balance (“Bill”) in the Quebec National Assembly. Bill 176 has since come into […]
November 15, 2018 The British Columbia Government recently introduced Bill 50, The Human Rights Code Amendment Act, 2018. If passed, this Bill will significantly change B.C.’s human rights regime, which hasn’t been the subject of change since 2002. Noteworthy, the Bill proposes to do the following: Extend the time for filling a complaint from 6 […]
November 1, 2018 On October 17, 2018, the same day marijuana officially became legal across Canada, Ontario passed Bill 36 – The Cannabis Legislation (“Bill”) and set in force the new Smoke-Free Ontario Act, 2017 (“SFOA”). You may recall from previous e2r™ Alerts that SFOA was scheduled to come into force on July 1, 2018 […]
October 23, 2018 Earlier today the Ontario government announced its intention to propose the Making Ontario Open for Business Act (“Open for Business Act”). The Open for Business Act, if passed, will repeal many of the workplace amendments implemented by the previous Liberal government under the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017, better known as […]
October 11, 2018 It is well-established law in Canada that an employee’s resignation must be a clear and unequivocal demonstration of the employee’s intention to resign. Additionally, employers generally have to provide employees with a “cooling off period” in cases where an employee’s resignation was emotionally driven or was in response to other extenuating circumstances. […]
September 27, 2018 On June 19, 2018, Bill C-45, the Cannabis Act (“Federal Act”) was passed, legalizing the consumption of recreational cannabis across Canada effective October 17, 2018. The Federal Act creates a legal framework for the sale and possession of cannabis in Canada. The Federal Act will allow adults to possess up to 30 […]
September 13, 2018 A recent case from the British Columbia Court of Appeal is yet another reminder to employers of the importance of enforceable employment agreements and termination provisions. The case in particular emphasizes this point given the short service of the employee upon termination and the sizeable reasonable notice award. In January 2014, Mr. […]
August 30, 2018 The Federal Government of Canada recently announced its plan to create a new statutory holiday, National Indigenous Peoples Day. Bill C-369 was introduced in the House of Commons, and is currently in its second reading. If passed, it would result in the implementation of a new statutory holiday for all federally regulated […]
August 16, 2018 Yuk Yee Ellen Pun, the owner of a chain of restaurants north of Toronto, has been sentenced to jail time under Section 137 of the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (“ESA”) for authorizing, permitting and/or acquiescing a contravention of the ESA. The charge relates to her corporations’ failures to provide employees their entitlements […]
August 2, 2018 The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has issued what is likely to be considered a precedent setting decision on the issue of discrimination on the basis of citizenship. The Tribunal in Haseeb v. Imperial Oil Limited has found that employers cannot discriminate against job candidates who do not have Canadian permanent residence status […]