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Navigating International Student Worker Restrictions: Post-Expiry Guidelines for Employers

May 14, 2024

On April 30, 2024, Canada’s temporary waiver allowing international students to exceed 20 hours of work per week expired.

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Legal Risk Assessments – An Essential Risk Management Tool

May 9, 2024

The best way to address the legal issues that arise in any business is to focus on their identification and resolution before they become legal problems.

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Ontario Employers Beware: Common Termination Language Held Unenforceable

Apr 16, 2024

Ontario's Superior Court of Justice found that a termination clause was unenforceable because it gave the employer discretion to terminate "at any time".

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Warning For Businesses: Companies Can be Liable for Tort of Bribery Even if They Did Not Intend to Pay or Receive a Bribe

Apr 12, 2024

Businesses with a duty to provide impartial advice must take steps to ensure the payments they make or receive are not later interpreted as bribes.

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Opa! A Reminder to Employers on the Importance of Proper Investigations

Mar 26, 2024

Restaurant employee awarded significant damages for employer's failure to investigate sexual harassment allegations.

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Duty to Mitigate Part II – Revenge of the Job Offer

Mar 5, 2024

Ontario's Superior Court of Justice found that a terminated employee failed to mitigate by refusing to accept an offer of comparable employment.

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Retail Closure Lay-Offs: Frustrating but Not Frustration of Contract

Feb 6, 2024

The BC Court of Appeal reinforces that frustration of contract, particularly in the employment context, is a stringent threshold.

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Part Two of McMillan’s R. vs Greater Sudbury Webinar

As a follow up to our first webinar back in December 2023 where we considered the history, details and legal implications of the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R. v. Greater Sudbury, please join us for “Part 2” where Patrick Groom, Victor Kim and Annik Forristal will be joined by a panel of industry experts.

Details Thursday, February 8, 2024
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What, I have to find you a job, too? The Onus on Employers to Show a Failure to Mitigate in Wrongful Dismissal Cases

Jan 17, 2024

Ontario's Superior Court recently emphasized that the onus is on the employer to show the failure of a former employee to mitigate in wrongful dismissal cases.