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The Ontario Court of Appeal recently upheld a jury award of $1.5 million in punitive damages against Sun Life in a claim for unfair treatment of an applicant seeking disability

The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal considered an application made by the employer for the refund of all settlement funds paid to the prior applicant due to the violation of the

The first review of the proposed new tort of harassment was the Ontario Court of Appeal decision in 2019. Notwithstanding the Court of Appeal decision in Merrifield, there have been

  Inference from the Evidence A recent decision of the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has once again considered the question of “reasonable inference” from the evidence before it to determine

The Federal Court of Canada recently, as in December of 2023, reviewed a decision of Adjudicator Kaufmann in an unjust dismissal complaint which awarded substantial indemnity costs. On the facts

 A recent decision of the Alberta Court of Justice has considered the question of whether (1) the employer’s covid mandatory vaccination policy was reasonable and further (2) whether the company’s

 A recent decision of the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal offers a clear analysis of the duty of the employer to maintain a workplace free of discrimination. In this instance, the

As of December 15, 2023, all federally regulated employers must provide, free of charge, menstrual products to their employees. This will include clean and hygienic menstrual pads and tampons to