Complimentary Archived Video Best Practices for Representing Marginalized Employment Law Clients June 09, 2022 Join our expert panel of legal aid clinic practitioners and private bar lawyers as they consider some of the unique ethical challenges, professionalism obligations, and strategic considerations that arise while representing low-income and/or marginalized clients in employment law matters.
Complimentary Archived Video New Minimum Standards for Gig Workers: Understanding the Implications of Bill 88 May 16, 2022 Ontario’s Working for Workers Act, 2022 (Bill 88), which enacts the Digital Platform Workers’ Rights Act, 2022, provides a new minimum wage and other foundational rights for digital platform workers.
Complimentary Archived Video Electronic Monitoring of Employees: What You Need to Know About Bill 88 and its New Requirements May 05, 2022 Ontario’s Bill 88, Working for Workers Act, 2022, introduces new and ground-breaking amendments to the Employment Standards Act, 2000, including requiring certain employers to prepare policies about any electronic monitoring of employees.
Complimentary Archived Video Enforcing COVID-19 Vaccination Policies: The Latest Word from Adjudicators January 25, 2022 Following a busy fall full of COVID-19 vaccination policy rollouts and challenges to the policies by labour unions and employees, labour arbitrators are beginning to issue decisions based on these disputes.
Complimentary Archived Video Employees’ “Right to Disconnect” from Work: Key Labour and Employment Insights December 17, 2021 Ontario recently enacted new laws to amend the Employment Standards Act, 2000, and is the first province to pass a law about the “right to disconnect”.
Complimentary Archived Video Considerations for Conducting Trauma-Informed Workplace Investigations and Dealing with Microaggressions and Unconscious Bias November 30, 2021 As workplace investigations have become more commonplace, employers are now faced with a multitude of considerations both in the selection of an investigator and how the investigation will be conducted.
Complimentary Archived Video Dealing with Digital Evidence for Employment and Labour Lawyers October 29, 2021 More and more labour and employment lawyers are using and relying on digital evidence and this will only continue to increase in a post-pandemic world.
Complimentary Archived Video The Impact of Infectious Disease Emergency Leave on Constructive Dismissal Claims September 27, 2021 The Ontario Courts have now rendered conflicting judgments regarding the Infectious Disease Emergency Leave (IDEL) and whether it modifies the common law regarding constructive dismissal. At this timely program, our expert faculty will provide an in-depth analysis of the IDEL and how it has been interpreted by the Courts to date, and offer practical guidance for management and employee-side counsel.
Complimentary Archived Video Vaccine Policies in your Workplace that cover Clients, Customers and Employees September 15, 2021 Many businesses are considering establishing vaccination policies that seek to keep employees and customers safe by confirming or requiring vaccinations of people attending at the business location.
Complimentary Archived Video Vaccination Requirements and Other Pandemic Related Issues in the Workplace January 28, 2021 Ontario businesses are struggling to keep up to date on their health and safety obligations related to the pandemic, as well as determining how to respond appropriately to their employees’ requests for accommodation and other generalized concerns about Covid-19.