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COVID-19 and difficult decisions for employers: Employment challenges in 2020

The year 2020 has been momentous for employment law. Human resources professionals, legal counsel and others have been forced to deal with constantly...

A year of upheavals and dashed expectations: Executive compensation developments in 2020

Executive compensation plans were upended in 2020 as a result of the dramatic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business plans and the extraordinary...

2020 Legal Year in Review – Introduction

Without a doubt, 2020 has been a year like no other. Inevitably, the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects is a theme that flows through many of the...

Part 2 of 2: Less than 2 months for employers to prepare for the new Federal Regulations on Workplace Harassment and Violence – Changes effective January 1, 2021

As explained in Part 1 of this series, the federal government’s new Workplace Harassment and Violence Prevention Regulations (the Regulations)...

SCC puts employers on notice regarding long-term incentive plans

In its decision released on October 13, 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada in Matthews v. Ocean Nutrition Canada Limited, 2020 SCC 26, confirmed that...

Who decides whether responding to summons would violate employment contract? The OSC says ‘not us’

Enforcement Staff of Canadian capital markets regulators have broad powers to compel the attendance of witnesses and to require those witnesses to...

Uber Technologies Inc. v. Heller: Implications for Arbitration and Employment Law

On June 26, 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada released its eagerly awaited decision in Uber Technologies Inc v. Heller (Heller). The Supreme Court...

Part 1 of 2: Less than 6 months for employers to prepare for the new federal regulations on workplace harassment and violence – changes effective January 1, 2021

The federal government has now published its Workplace Harassment and Violence Prevention Regulations (the “Regulations”), which will...

The Ontario Court of Appeal’s latest decision striking down attempts to control severance cost

A key way employers control severance cost risk is to hire employees under written employment contracts that specifically limit what the...

Supreme Court of Canada rules Uber arbitration clause invalid and a ‘classic case of unconscionability’

The SCC released its decision in the closely watched case of Uber Technologies Inc v. Heller on June 26, 2020, and held that Uber’s arbitration...