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Family Status Accommodation: Where do we stand?
June 2019
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Unionization in the Surveying Industry – Do you know how to protect your business?
May 1, 2019
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Cannabis is Legal: 5 Things Grocers Should Know
March/April 2019
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WSIB’s new policy on medical cannabis
March 21, 2019
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Independent Contractors- Riskier Than Ever
March 2019
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ICI sector preps for open season amid uncertainties
January 31, 2019
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Due Diligence and the Role of a Competent Supervisor in Health and Safety
Winter 2018
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July 15, 2019
| Sherrard Kuzz LLP
Ontario’s Ministry of Labour has started a summer safety inspection blitz of workplaces with high numbers of new and young (summer student) workers.
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May 24, 2019
| Daryl Seupersad
Yesterday, the Government of Ontario announced the appointment of two special advisors to conduct a review of the province’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (“WSIB”). The WSIB is an independent agency that administers compensation and no-fault insurance for Ontario workplaces. The review is welcome news to Ontario employers covered by the WSIB and that have long considered the WSIB’s processes to be less than efficient and effective.
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April 05, 2019
| Sherrard Kuzz LLP
On April 3, 2019, Ontario’s Bill 66 - the Restoring Ontario's Competitiveness Act, 2018 – received Royal Assent. Bill 66 amends 17 pieces of legislation, including the Employment Standards Act, Labour Relations Act, Agricultural Employees Protection Act, and Pension Benefits Act. The stated intent of these amendments is to reduce red tape and the regulatory burden currently placed on employers.
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March 25, 2019
| Raymond K. MacKinnon
Stories of workplace harassment continue to receive front page news coverage in Canada, the United States, and abroad. A December 2018 Statistics Canada study titled, “Harassment in Canadian workplaces,” found that, in 2016, 15.9% of employees reported having experienced, “verbal abuse, humiliating behaviour, threats, physical violence, and unwanted sexual attention or sexual harassment in the workplace over the past 12 months.”
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March 12, 2019
| Daryl Seupersad
On March 1, 2019 the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board implemented its new Operational Policy on Cannabis for Medical Purposes, setting strict guidelines for the use of medical cannabis as treatment for work-related illness or injury.
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January 07, 2019
| Sherrard Kuzz LLP
On December 6, 2018, Bill 66 - the Restoring Ontario's Competitiveness Act, 2018 - passed First Reading by Ontario’s Conservative Government.
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November 12, 2018
| Heather Raymond
As the holiday season approaches, it’s time to revisit the law of employer host liability.
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October 30, 2018
| Iouri Vorobiev
In the first quarter of 2016 we wrote about the Police Record Checks Reform Act, 2015 (the “Police Record Checks Act”) - new legislation to standardize the process by which police record checks are requested, conducted and obtained in Ontario.
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