A number of our Firm’s recent blogs have painted a picture of what consequences arise when an employer is found to have violated the Human Rights Code with respect to its employees. Hopefully by now you have a better understanding of how to ensure your company and its employees do not engage in discriminatory conduct in the workplace, but you might not know what to do if you are named in an Application […]
The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) has today given its decision in the case of USDAW and others – v – Ethel Austin and others, otherwise known as the Woolworths case. The CJEU has decided that, in determining whether collective redundancy consultation obligations are triggered, an employer need only consider proposed redundancies in each of its ‘establishments’ separately, and not all proposed redundancies in aggregate across all sites.
Background
UK law requires that, […]
On March 25, 2015, the Government of Canada published regulations amending the Pension Benefits Standards Regulations, 1985 (the “PBSR”). The amendments include changes to the federal investment rules set out in Schedule III of the PBSR (the “Investment Rules”). As the Investment Rules have been adopted by reference in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador, the changes extend beyond the federal jurisdiction. The amendments are intended to modernize the Investment […]