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Can employers ban tattoos and body piercings in the workplace?

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada
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February 28 2013

A recent labour arbitration decision addressed the question of whether an employer can prohibit employees from having "visible, excessive body

Court of Appeal skunks late property loss claims

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada
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May 10 2013

The Court of Appeal has allowed an insurer's appeal asserting the one-year limitation period in an all-risk property policy. The decision highlights

TSCC 1633 v Baghai Development Ltd. and Rabba Fine Foods Inc.

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada
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January 10 2012

This recent decision of the Superior Court will encourage boards trying to enforce the condominium Declaration, bylaws and rules against commercial owners

Circulation of erotic pictures in the workplace: when the righteous end up righted

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada
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December 11 2012

A substitute teacher recently won her legal battle against a Québec school board that withdrew her name from the substitute teachers’ list, invoking erotic pictures of her taken some eight years earlier

Canada’s first criminal conviction for illegal insider trading

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada
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February 23 2010

Canada's first criminal conviction for illegal insider trading occurred on November 6, 2009 when Justice Robert Bigelow of the Ontario Court of Justice accepted a guilty plea from Stan Grmovsek

The high price of age discrimination

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada
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April 29 2013

One of the most important issues facing employers today is the management of employees of the baby boomer generation who are nearing the end of their

Municipalities take notice: treading on thick ice

Miller Thomson LLP
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Canada
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August 27 2012

In the recent decision of Justice Mossip, Mark v. Corporation (City of Guelph), 2012 ONSC 3510 involving local counsel Gary Petker for the Plaintiff, Nathan Mark, and James Bennett for the Defendants: the City of Guelph and the County of Wellington, the Defendant municipalities were found to be 100 liable for the nearly $2,000,000.00 in damages arising out of a motor vehicle collision