By Miriam Katawazi TORONTO -- Toronto’s mayor and medical officer of health are calling on the Ontario government to ensure workers have access to 10 paid sick days during the COVID-19 pandemic. Toronto's top doctor Eileen de Villa and Mayor John Tory made the request at a news conference on Monday following a report [...]

By Trevor Dunn With essential workplaces continuing to operate during Ontario's post-Christmas shutdown, there are concerns that without proper protection the spread of COVID-19 won't quit either. Warehouses, food processing plants, manufacturing facilities and some retail stores are among the essential businesses exempt from provincial shutdown orders set to go into effect on Boxing [...]

By Elizabeth Thompson The Canada Revenue Agency has simplified the rules to make millions of Canadians working from home eligible for a tax deduction. Under the new rules, those who worked from home more than 50 per cent of the time over a period of at least four consecutive weeks in 2020 as a [...]

By Meredith MacLeod TORONTO -- As a potential COVID-19 vaccine gets closer to reality in Canada, so does the reality that as employees who have been working remotely return to their workplaces, there are uncharted legal and ethical waters ahead. Among the issues to be navigated: Could employers force staff to get vaccinated? There [...]

By Jason Ho, Adrienne Arsenault A group of current and former Black civil servants has issued a proposed class-action lawsuit against the federal government alleging it discriminated against Black employees for decades. They claim the government has excluded Black federal employees from being promoted. "Our exclusion at the top levels of the public service, [...]

By CBC News Out of work Ontario emergency assistance — This is for those who need short-term financial support for items like food and housing. Eligible people must live in Ontario and be in a crisis situation, which includes being affected by COVID-19, being evicted, are in or are leaving an abusive relationship, or [...]

By Jordan Press, Christopher Reynolds The federal government's latest lifeline to cash-strapped businesses landed with a swirl of anxiety as companies face an uncertain future that the country's finance minister summed up in three words: "Winter is coming." The new Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy replaces an earlier rent support program for businesses introduced in [...]

By Kate Dubinski The Ontario Labour Relations Board has ruled in favour of a migrant worker and against a farm that fired him for speaking out about health and safety issues at the facility amid a COVID-19 outbreak. Luis Gabriel Flores Flores was fired from Scotlynn Sweetpac Growers in Norfolk County this summer after [...]

By Meera Bains A former BC Ferries worker fired for inappropriate conduct has lost a Labour Relations Board case he filed against his union for failing to grieve his dismissal. The complainant referred to by the initials "BM" in documents to protect his privacy, argued the BC Ferry and Marine Workers' Union didn't make [...]

By Catharine Tunney The Royal Canadian Mounted Police pension plan discriminates against women and violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Supreme Court ruled in a divided decision released today. The case was brought forward by three retired female Mounties who argued that elements of the RCMP's pension plan are outdated and [...]