Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice recently struck down a release signed at a termination meeting.  Read more about this interesting…

Perhaps now more than ever before, the lawyers at Stringer LLP have been deeply engaged, supporting clients who face significant,…

Landon Young discusses how to avoid the fixed term contract trap.

The U.S. Labour Department has recently commenced an initiative to require employers to prepare and adopt compliance plans to ensure…

Jeremy Schwartz discusses recent punitive damages awards in Ontario

Employers often avoid making significant, compliance-oriented changes for fear that employees will discover their rights have been violated for years…

Increasingly, the courts are striking down termination provisions in employment contracts resulting in lengthy common law notice awards to employees. …

Ryan Conlin and Frank Portman discuss the disturbing trend of increasingly large general damages awards in human rights litigation.

Probationary periods are often essential tools for both employers and employees to determine the viability of a new employment relationship….

This is segment 3 of 5 from our Q3 webinar held on Thursday, October 10, “Breach of Confidentiality Clauses in Settlements”

Employers are often faced with the galling choice between asserting just cause for termination, and paying potentially large sums of…

Corporate restructuring is often accompanied by lawsuits by jilted employees claiming constructive dismissal.  In a recent case, the Ontario Court…

An Ontario Court has signaled that it is prepared to adjudicate wrongful dismissal cases very quickly where the employer has not asserted…

A recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision dealt a blow to employers’ ability to credit employee mitigation efforts and income…

At times, employers despair at the perceived narrowing of the requirements of just cause for termination. With many adjudicators focused on…