Asset Sales and Employment Rights – What You Don’t Know Can Cost You
Employees who are swept up in asset sales may have common law rights to termination based on more than just their most recent length of service. Employers and employees must take care in drafting, negotiating and accepting offers that affect their rights.
Temporary Help Agencies and Recruiters – Licensing Obligations Now Apply
Ontario has now confirmed its licensing requirements for temporary help agencies and recruiters. Requirements will officially be in place January 1, 2024. Failing to obtain a license can result in fines of up to $50,000 or a ban on operating in Ontario. For employers using temporary help agencies and recruiters, it will be an offense to knowingly use unlicensed business for your staffing needs.
Misgendering Equals Misconduct in the Workplace
Despite considerable societal progress in the last few decades, two recent decisions serve as a timely reminder of the challenges that transgender people can still face in places of work and learning.
Sale of a Business Raises Employment Law Issues
Purchasers should be aware of the potential cost of taking on the employment of the vendor’s employees and the unexpected liabilities that may arise if those same employees are terminated after the transaction is completed.
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Notice Periods
When COVID-19 first made its way to Canadian shores, some employment lawyers suggested that the pandemic and the economic shutdown that came with it would serve to extend the reasonable notice period due to dismissed employees. Recent case law suggests otherwise.
Working For Workers Act, 2021
On December 2, 2021, the Working for Workers Act, 2021 (the “Act”) came into effect. Notable for employers is that the Act introduced a new Part VII.0.1 to the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (the “ESA”).
Madeleine Loewenberg Quoted in The Toronto Star
Madeleine Loewenberg was quoted in an April 16, 2020 article written by Rosa Saba entitled Covid-19 Disruption Has Some Parents Worried They’ll Lose Out on Maternity Benefits. Access the article here
Legitimate Work Refusals or Labour Relations Complaint?
An article prepared by Madeleine Loewenberg for The Lawyer’s Daily.
Madeleine Loewenberg Quoted in Canadian Lawyer InHouse Magazine
Madeleine weighs in on the decision of Brake v. PJ-M2R, in which a constructively dismissed employee is awarded twenty months’ pay in lieu of notice of her termination.
Madeleine Loewenberg Quoted in Canadian Lawyer Magazine
Madeleine provides commentary on the jail sentence imposed in R. v. Kaznelson, distinguishing between charges related to health and safety that are laid under the Criminal Code of Canada and those laid under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
