By: Alex Antoneshyn, March 5, 2024 Via: CTV News: Edmonton - https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/construction-company-fined-144k-in-2022-workplace-injury-1.6795313 A construction company has been fined $144,000 in the workplace injury of an Edmonton worker in 2022. On March 7, 2022, at the work site near 122 Street and 106 Avenue, the worker fell between six and eight metres down a piling [...]

By Jim Wilson 25 Jan. 2024 via Canadian Occupational Safety Ontario employer OJB Industries Inc. has been fined $120,000 after a workplace fatality. Following a guilty plea, the employer must also pay a 25-per-cent victim fine surcharge as required by the Provincial Offences Act, to be credited to a special provincial government fund to [...]

By Allison Jones via The Canadian Press Ontario plans to explicitly ban unpaid trial shifts for restaurant and hospitality workers as well as strengthen rules against deducting employee wages in the event of customer theft. The proposed amendments are the latest in a series of labour law changes in legislation tabled on Tuesday by [...]

Olivia Bowden · CBC News · Posted: Nov 08, 2023 5:00 AM EST | Last Updated: November 8 Ontario's human rights commission recognized caste-based discrimination for the first time last week and while many advocates applaud the move, there are also hopes it will lead to further action at provincial and federal levels. On [...]

By Hannah Alberga for CTV News March 13, 2023 The Ontario government is proposing an update to employment laws that would entitle remote employees to termination notices. The proposed changes, announced on Monday, would make remote workers eligible for the same eight week minimum notice of termination or pay-in-lieu as in-office employees when mass [...]

By CBC News February 12, 2023 An independent human rights board of inquiry has found a woman who said she was fired as a result of complications from pregnancy was discriminated against. Donald Murray, chair of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission board of inquiry, released his decision on Feb. 7. The identity of [...]

By Mike Crawley for CBC News January 30, 2023 The vast majority of workers in Ontario haven't experienced anything quite like it their entire working lives: a labour market tilted in their favour. Statistics show unemployment running as low as it's ever been, record-high job vacancy numbers and unprecedented labour force participation rates. The [...]

Employment agreement clearly provides for discretionary annual performance-based pay, court says BY Bernise Carolino December 19, 2022 The judge below overlooked evidence about bonuses that the appellant previously received and should have awarded him the performance-based bonus payable under the employment agreement, the Ontario Court of Appeal said in a recent case. A motion [...]

By Bernise Carolino via Law Times News The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has concurrent jurisdiction to decide discrimination and harassment claims within the scope of collective agreements governed by Ontario’s Labour Relations Act (LRA) or Ontario’s Police Services Act (PSA), said the tribunal has ruled. In Weilgosh v. London District Catholic School Board, 2022 [...]

Bryan Passifiume Publishing date: Sept 16, 2022 via the National Post Members of a federal tribunal ruled in favour of a Toronto-area delivery driver denied Employment Insurance (EI) benefits after losing his job for refusing his employer’s COVID-19 vaccine policy. Last summer, Timothy Conlon was dismissed from his job after turning down a request [...]