If an employer terminates an employee for “just cause”, the employee is not entitled to notice of termination or pay in lieu of notice. ...

It’s a fundamental building block of Canadian law that a corporation is a separate legal entity from its directors, officers and...

Prohibited Action Complaints (PACs) by employees to WorkSafeBC have become increasingly common. PACs are notoriously difficult to...

As employment lawyers, we spend a lot of time with our employer clients to ensure they understand their obligations to employees upon...

There is often a lack of clarity about how employers can implement and use ‘probationary’ periods, and whether having a probationary...

If asked about the role of a union, most people first think of a union as a champion for employees, and an adversary of employers. Unions...

Our previous blog advised of Prime Minister Trudeau's announcement of a 75% wage subsidy to help businesses affected by the COVID-19...

The ongoing uncertainty from the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep Canadians up at night. Many business owners breathed a sigh of...

Our blog post from two days ago described the expected federal initiatives to assist working Canadians, including the self-employed, who...

* DUE TO QUICKLY EVOLVING CIRCUMSTANCES, the information in the post below should be read in combination with our update, HERE. There are...

Although recreational cannabis was just legalized in Canada (in October of 2018), dealing with cannabis in the workplace is not entirely...

More and more, companies are using contractors instead of employees, for many reasons. From the company's perspective, it may want to...

The purpose of an investigation, at its core, is simply to find out what happened. It gives an organization the factual basis to make a...