We all know that an employer risks a constructive dismissal claim when they unilaterally impose substantial changes to fundamental terms of the employment agreement. But can they do the exact same thing simply by giving the employee notice of the…
After months, if not years, of wild speculation about the impact upon the workplace of the legalization of cannabis, we have now been through the first two weeks of the legal cannabis era, and the sky has not fallen. Many…
Police forces that ban officers outright from using recreational marijuana after it is legalized will likely face court challenges, says an Ontario employment lawyer.
What is an employer to do when they receive an application from someone that they know, or suspect, was previously outed as a sexual harasser?
Is it fair to use a non-competition clause to shut someone out of an industry? What about a non-solicitation clause? Will courts even enforce such restrictions?
One of Stuart’s pet peeves is employers who want references to help them in their candidate selection, but who refuse to provide references for their own former employees. They may do so out of fear of liability. A fear that…
"Rudner warn[s] against using more than one annotation tool in a law department. Annotations created by one application can’t necessarily be read or edited using another."
“The fax is an antiquated technology,” wrote Stuart Rudner. “That said, in order to properly and easily serve a court document in Ontario, the fax is still necessary. ... That’s the only reason that my new firm has a fax…
Lawyer and author Stuart Rudner has opened a new firm. Located in Markham, Ont., Rudner Law was created with a focus on employment law and dispute resolution and mediation in mind.
Stuart explains your options if one of your employees is caught “on tape” (as we used to say) at a rally of white supremacists / neo-Nazis, avidly chanting racist, anti-Semitic and other offensive slogans?
