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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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