Labour & Employment
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February 27, 2025
Preparing Canadian businesses for potential U.S. tariff impact
As the deadline for potential U.S. tariffs approaches, businesses across Canada are facing a wave of uncertainty. With the possibility of tariffs set to disrupt trade relations, the question on everyone’s mind is, “How will my business be impacted?” For many small and medium-sized businesses, this is the time to take proactive steps to prepare for the unknown.
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February 26, 2025
Nova Scotia asks CBSA to investigate tire imports ‘flooding Canadian market’
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston has asked the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) to conduct an urgent investigation into imports of passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China, Cambodia and Vietnam.
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February 26, 2025
Higher-cost medicines drove 14.1 per cent spike in patented drug prices: Report
The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board has published its latest report, finding that “drug costs jumped by 14.1 per cent in 2023, rebounding from three years of moderate increases of four to five per cent during the pandemic.”
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February 26, 2025
Nova Scotia tables legislation opening ‘free trade’ with other provinces, territories
With the Trump tariffs looming, Nova Scotia has introduced pioneering legislation that would create “free trade” with participating provinces and territories. On Feb. 25, Nova Scotia’s government introduced the Free Trade and Mobility within Canada Act — a “first of its kind in the country” that “will help foster an environment of mutual recognition of goods, services and labour mobility across all sectors,” states a news release.
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February 26, 2025
SCC halts use of its ‘X’ account ‘for now,’ citing ‘strategic priorities and resource allocation’
In a move that has sparked controversy in Canada and beyond, the Supreme Court of Canada tells Law360 Canada that “for now” it will no longer use its official account on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, a high-profile billionaire associate of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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February 26, 2025
Women & 2SLGBTQI+ applicants came out ahead as ‘highly recommended’ for federal benches in 2023-2024
Asserting his new administration is “ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity,” U.S. President Donald Trump recently issued controversial executive orders banning diversity, equity and inclusion policies and hiring at the federal level in America. But in Canada, the most recent demographic statistics on federal judicial appointments and the professional competence and character assessments made by the Trudeau government’s non-partisan judicial advisory committees (JACs) indicate that diversity has gone hand in hand with “merit.”
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February 26, 2025
How Trump’s proposed tariffs will affect executive employment contracts | Frank Portman
The recent threats by the Trump administration of tariffs against Canadian goods, and the recent imposition of global tariffs against American aluminum and steel imports, have caused great consternation on both sides of the border. By some estimates, in a worst-case scenario tariffs could cost over 600,000 Canadian jobs and devastate the economy generally, according to the Feb. 3 Globe and Mail article by Vanmalla Subramanian titled “Tariffs would lead to job losses in auto and resource sectors, economists predict.”
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February 25, 2025
N.S. Premier backs off amendments that could have AG fired without cause
Nova Scotia’s premier has reversed course on proposed legislative changes that would have given the government the ability to fire the province’s auditor general without cause.
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February 25, 2025
Court of Appeal removes ‘wiggle room’ from employment releases
With the uptick in terminations without cause on the rise in Canada due to economic uncertainty on the horizon, counsel settling dismissal claims must be extremely vigilant in drafting and reviewing the Minutes of Settlement, Release and Indemnity that a client signs in order to get paid.
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February 25, 2025
New managing director, people and culture joins McInnes Cooper
Peter Graham is the new managing director, people and culture at McInnes Cooper, responsible for leading all aspects of the firm’s people and culture function, and he will lead the development and execution of related functions, including learning and development.