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Heller v. Uber: Some Thoughts from Ontario on Uber’s Arbitration Clause
January 7 2019 By now, you have no doubt heard about the big Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Heller v. Uber Technologies, released as the first decision of the…
My Entry on Harvard’s OnLabor Blog: “Cross Border Reflections on the Future of Labor Law Reform”
Happy New Year all! For my first entry of the year, I will simply link to a short comparative labour law piece I published this week in the great OnLabor…
Amazon’s Direct Line to Doug Ford Reminiscent of Mike Harris’s 1990s Lovefest With Walmart
You have to hand it to Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford. At least he is open about how he gives special privileged access to giant American corporations. Some politicians might be…
Tears Are Not Enough: Court of Appeal Tosses Aggravated Damages Award
October 28 2018 A recent British Columbia Court of Appeal decision reminds us that balling your eyes out when you are fired is not “evidence” of psychological harm resulting from…
Tweet of the Day: “Economists are Starting to Suspect that Unions Were a Better Deal than Textbooks Made Them Out To Be”
September 24 2018 This is my absolute new favourite headline on #IndustrialRelations and #LabourEconomists. The accompanying article provides a nice, brief summary of the long-standing debates about What Unions…
A Successful Strike Vote is All That Stands in the Way of Employer Imposing Contract Terms
September 16 2018 At York University, where I work, not a single full-time faculty member wants there to be a work stoppage. I presume neither does the employer. Lord…
Unifor Posts Photos of Replacement Workers as Gander Lockout Drags On
September 10, 2018 Unionized workers in Gander have been locked out by a Kansas-based company called D-J Composites since December 2016. Let that sink in. For almost two years, the…
A Wrongful Dismissal Case and the Absence of a Right of Employees to Act Collectively
August 28 2018 I want to start the 2018-19 academic year with an interesting issue that I have written about periodically over the years. It has to do with the…
Professor Hugh Collins (Oxford) on Redefining Worker Status in Employment Law
Presently, most statutes designed to protect workers apply only to “employees” engaged pursuit to a traditional “employment contract”. The same is true for most common law protections, such the implied…
Should Wage Stealing Bosses Be Imprisoned?
I have reported in the past on a number of deadbeat employers in Ontario who have been imprisoned for failure to comply with orders to pay wages to their employees.…
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