Labour & Employment
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May 14, 2024
Labour tribunal rules method to conduct pay equity audit is invalid
A method used to estimate wage differentials during pay equity evaluations cannot be validly used as it contravenes the Quebec Pay Equity Act, ruled the Administrative Labour Tribunal in a decision widely expected by labour lawyers to have a significant impact on estimating and assessing public sector pay equity.
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May 13, 2024
WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY — Offences and enforcement
Appeal by Workers' Compensation Board ("Board") from order dismissing its petition seeking statutory injunction on grounds including that judge erred in law by failing to correctly apply factual test in s. 97(1) of Workers Compensation Act ("Act").
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May 13, 2024
Quebec tribunal certifies first Amazon warehouse union in Canada
The Administrative Labour Tribunal (ALT) of Quebec has certified the Laval Amazon Workers Union—CSN, said to be the first time in Canada that there is a union at an Amazon warehouse.
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May 13, 2024
Family Legal Services Provider program starting January 2025 | Michelle Lomazzo
On Dec. 1, 2022, The Law Society of Ontario (LSO) convocation voted in favour of a Family Legal Services Provider (FLSP) licence for licensed paralegals. Since then, Fanshawe College has been selected as the approved and only online provider of the FLSP program. The FLSP program is now in development and Fanshawe will begin offering the program starting in January 2025.
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May 10, 2024
New associate joins Lerners in London
Efua K. Gyan joined Lerners LLP as an associate in the firm’s health law and labour and employment groups.
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May 10, 2024
Federal Court affirms Employment Insurance Commission’s decision to disentitle EI benefits
In the complex realm of administrative law, the recent ruling by the Federal Court sheds light on the intricacies of employment insurance (EI) entitlements. Mr. Puig, an international student seeking regular EI benefits, found himself embroiled in a legal dispute after being disentitled from benefits in March 2021 due to study permit restrictions. Exploring the intricate issues of policy interpretation, evidentiary requirements, and judicial discretion, this case encapsulates the challenges faced by individuals navigating the complexities of administrative processes (Puig v. Canada (Attorney General), [2024] F.C.J. No. 517.
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May 09, 2024
N.B. looks to greater regulations for private career colleges
In the name of increased protections for post-secondary students, New Brunswick is proposing legislative changes that would mean greater regulation over private career colleges in the province.
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May 09, 2024
Terminated for failure to follow vaccination policy? No EI for you.
Are we done with COVID vaccination policy litigation? Not yet.
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May 09, 2024
How AI protections in new SAG-AFTRA agreement affect Canadian actors
“What’s the difference between theft and research?” went the old joke back in university. Answer: volume!
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May 09, 2024
IRCC’s inadequate online access for clients seeking immigration info ‘untenable’: federal watchdog
The years-long failure of the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to create a functional system to digitally communicate with would-be immigrants has pushed tens of thousands of IRCC clients (and their lawyers) to try to track the progress of their immigration applications via the access-to-information portals of the federal immigration department and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), says federal Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard, who called the status quo and resulting deluge of access to information requests “simply untenable.”