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Fasken | Canada | 18 Jan 2021
As a result of amendments to Part III of the Canada Labour Code (the "Code"), which came into effect in 2019, the Canada Industrial Relations Board…
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Taylor McCaffrey LLP | Canada | 1 Dec 2020
The decision of the Federal Court of Appeal in Bank of Montréal v Yanping (Kate) Li, 2020 FCA 22, provides an interesting take on the settlement of a…
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McCarthy Tétrault LLP | Canada | 23 Nov 2020
On November 9, 2020, the federal Minister of Labour announced a further extension to the permissible time period for temporary layoffs in light of the…
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Blaney McMurtry LLP | Canada | 16 Nov 2020
The Work Place Harassment and Violence Prevention Regulations published by the Federal Government in June of this year will come into effect on…
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Torkin Manes LLP | Canada | 22 Oct 2020
In a recent class action proceeding which affected 31,000 CIBC customer service employees across Canada, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has…
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Stikeman Elliott LLP | Canada | 31 Jul 2020
The Government of Alberta has passed Bill 32, the Restoring Balance in Alberta’s Workplaces Act, 2020 (Bill 32) to amend the Employment Standards Code…
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Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP | Canada | 29 Jun 2020
Employment standards legislation across Canada allows employers to temporarily layoff employees for a limited period of time in certain circumstances…
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Rubin Thomlinson LLP | Canada | 22 Jun 2020
The rules around investigating incidents of workplace harassment and violence will shift once Bill C-65, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code…
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Rubin Thomlinson LLP | Canada | 14 May 2020
2020 was supposed to be the year that Bill C-65, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (harassment and violence)¹ came into force. The Bill promises…
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Fasken | Canada | 26 Mar 2020
The Government of Canada announced the passing of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit Act(PDF), which included, among many other things: (1) a new…