Employment Contracts - Articles & Videos

In the niche world of employment law, by insisting on shorter documents, employers risk leaving a lot of rights on the table.

How can you stop a former employee from acting in a way that harms your company? Apart from threatening to sue the employee for damages, is there a way to have the Court tell the employee to stop doing something?

Our 2024 Year in Review continues. We are in an HR Law Era where our courts remain concerned with the power imbalance in the employment relationship and will find ways to help employees.

Our HR Law Eras Tour “set list” takes us through 2024’s notable decisions and developments, with the goal of providing employers and employees with a map of the current landscape that allows them to navigate the challenges ahead.

Employment is a legal relationship. The good news is that this means you can protect yourself in the event of a layoff.

While seasons matter in employment law, good contracts are evergreen. This is true even for seemingly temporary seasonal employees.

Employers of all stripes make similar mistakes by assuming that because the ESA requires no notice for employees with less than three months of service, they are “probationary” employees and thus have no obligations towards them.

In the recent decision, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice provided another reminder that saving provisions in an employment agreement will not save a termination provision which violates, or has the potential to violate, the requirements of the Employment Standards Act, 2000.

While dismissals are virtually never mutual, using an exit package allows the employer and the employee to part ways amicably and mutually.