May 19, 2017 Here’s a wrap up of a few issues to ponder that came up this week in the Law of Work. Have a great long weekend! Can My…
April 18, 2017 A recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal serves as a good reminder of an important point made in Chapter 15 of The Law of Work…
The annual Clawbies Awards recognizing the best law blogs in Canada were released on New Year’s Eve 2016. A few minutes looking over this year’s recipients will demonstrate the fantastic…
November 5 2016 A paper I wrote for an Employment Law course with Professor Hugh Collins (now of Oxford) while I was doing my LLM at the London School of…
Big news on the home front: My super amazing spouse, May Cheng, is joining Osler’s intellectual property group. May is one of Canada’s leading intellectual property lawyers. This is…
It’s a thing of beauty. I let my employment law students bring a one page, one sided 8 x 11 cheat sheet into their exam. This one is my favourite,…
This entry relates to material covered in The Law of Work book in Chapter 11 (looking at fixed term employment contracts, Chapter 16 (damages and mitigation in wrongful dismissal lawsuits).…
Sean Bawden over at Labour Pains blog let time know about a very odd little wrongful dismissal decision issued recently in Ontario. The case is called Muntean v. Enablence Canada. …
February 23, 2016 A textbook example of the legal distinction between employees, dependent contractors, and independent contractors that we explore in Chapter 3 of The Law of Work was issued…
I was asked this weekend about a hypothetical employment situation. Let’s call the employee in this story Mark. It’s a good scenario for a law school question. Facts Last April,…
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