Labour and Employment Communiqué
2011 Archives
March 29, 2011
Do Employees have Privacy Rights on Your Computer?
The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision, R. v. Cole, addressed the issue of an employee’s expectation of privacy on an employer’s laptop computer. At first glance, this decision appears to have far-reaching implications...
January 27, 2011
Ontario Court of Appeal rules on the composition of Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committees
Those Ontario employers who are provincially regulated in labour and employment matters will, if they engage independent contractors and/or workers from temporary agencies, wish to consider the application to their businesses of a...
January 21, 2011
Soost v. Merrill Lynch Canada Inc.: Welcome judicial restraint exercised in the analysis of wrongful dismissal damages
There has been considerable uncertainty as to the circumstances in which a Court will award aggravated or punitive damages in respect of the dismissal of an employee. Since the seminal decision of the Supreme Court in Wallace v....