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Employer alert: Ontario issues “stay-at-home” order and new restrictions on businesses

By Adrian Miedema, Claire Browne, Larysa Workewych, and Henry Machum
  • General

Ontario employers now legally required to screen employees coming to work – using the government’s “Screening Tool”

By Adrian Miedema and Emily Kroboth
  • General

Constructively Dismissed Due to Workplace Mental Distress? You May Need to Go to the WSIB, not Courts

By Adrian Miedema
  • Caselaw Developments
  • Prosecutions / Charges

WSIB fraud requires a wilful act, like tax evasion, appeal court decides

By Adrian Miedema
  • Caselaw Developments
  • Safety - Risk Management

Ninety-day administrative driving suspension for impaired driving was not just cause to fire Assistant Fire Chief

By Adrian Miedema
  • Caselaw Developments
  • Violence and Harassment

“Communications and conduct” of employer’s lawyer regarding sexual harassment investigation were not privileged, could be referred to in Claim, court decides

By Adrian Miedema
  • Caselaw Developments
  • Prosecutions / Charges
  • Safety - Risk Management

Owner of electrical contractor, who transferred assets due to looming charges, held personally liable for company’s $430,000 regulatory fine

By Adrian Miedema
  • Caselaw Developments
  • Violence and Harassment

Female police officers’ class action claiming gender harassment dismissed because arbitrator, not courts, had jurisdiction

By Adrian Miedema
  • Caselaw Developments
  • Safety Professionals - Practice Issues

Safety manager wins wrongful dismissal suit: he had not failed to complete assigned tasks, court decides

By Adrian Miedema
  • Caselaw Developments
  • Safety - Risk Management
  • Safety Professionals - Practice Issues

Court declines to quash “bid ban” imposed by City on paving company for safety and other reasons

By Adrian Miedema
  • Caselaw Developments
  • Prosecutions / Charges

OHSA charges in fatality case dismissed for delay. Crown did not have “concrete plan” to move case along

By Adrian Miedema
  • Caselaw Developments
  • Prosecutions / Charges

“Distracted” by cell phones, forklift operators were guilty of OHSA offence

By Adrian Miedema

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