Labour & Employment
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September 04, 2024
Appeal court rules COVID-19 benefit income threshold violated Charter
In what one lawyer described as a “leap forward” in the application of s. 15 Charter rights to legislation, the Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that the federal government’s $5,000 threshold for its COVID-19 unemployment benefits infringed on the Charter rights of an Ontario woman who did not qualify due to her disability.
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September 04, 2024
Court: Shoppers Drug Mart breached franchise agreements in keeping $1.084B in allowances
Shopper’s Drug Mart breached agreements with its franchisees when it retained $1.084 billion in professional allowances received from generic drug manufacturers for direct patient services, the Ontario Court of Appeal has held.
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September 04, 2024
New measures to control Temporary Foreign Worker Program insufficient
The recent announcement regarding the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) is a small step towards addressing a pressing problem.
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September 03, 2024
Unifor files application to represent Walmart warehouse workers in Mississauga
Canada's largest private-sector union has filed an application with the Ontario Labour Relations Board to represent workers at a Walmart warehouse in Mississauga, Ont.
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September 03, 2024
Managing increased U.S. immigration filing fees for cross-border companies
In April 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) enacted dramatic increases to U.S. immigration filing fees, with many employment-based categories exceeding $1,000 in government fees per employee. For Canadian companies with cross-border workforces, such fees create a new burden to doing business in the United States.
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August 30, 2024
Report: Nova Scotia workers’ compensation system needs to cut costs, time lost to injury
Nova Scotia’s workers’ compensation system (WCS) should review its cost structure and introduce penalties for workers and employers who don’t co-operate in the return-to-work process to make the underfunded system more sustainable, according to a review of the system.
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August 30, 2024
B.C. court finds hotel liable for cutting employee shifts during COVID-19 pandemic
The B.C. Supreme Court has held that a Vancouver hotel that stopped offering shifts to hourly employees during the COVID-19 pandemic is liable for breach of contract, despite a provision in the employment contracts that assignment of hours would be subject to business demand.
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August 30, 2024
P.E.I. expands nursing duties, recognizes psychiatric nursing
Expanding the scope of nursing on Prince Edward Island will broaden legal perspectives “on what appropriate care looks like” — particularly when it comes to the recognition of psychiatric nurses, says a lawyer.
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August 29, 2024
New international practitioner for Segev
Boaz Nahshoni who is called to practise in the State of New York and in Israel is joining the business, technology, securities and gaming law firm Segev LLP.
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August 28, 2024
Most ‘BIOC’ immigration assessments that were judicially reviewed in past year were flawed
More than two dozen first-line immigration or citizenship decisions that rejected requests for permanent residence or other relief over the past year were quashed by the Federal Court due to immigration officials failing to properly analyze the best interests of the children involved, finds a Law360 Canada review of the Federal Court’s recent “BIOC” case law.