Ontario Government Will Proceed With Major Changes To Employment Laws

On May 30, 2017, the Ontario government announced its intention to introduce The Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017. This legislation would include significant amendments to the Employment Standards Act, 2000(“ESA”) and the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (“LRA”).

As reported in an earlier Alert, the Ontario Government released the Final Report of the Changing Workplaces Review on May 24, 2017. The Final Report contained 173 recommendations ranging from specific amendments to the ESA, the LRA and the Occupational Health and […]

By | June 7th, 2017 ||

Customer feedback accounts on social media: Are employers actively facilitating abuse of their own employees?

While an employer can’t regulate what is posted about the business or its workers on social media generally, it can be responsible where those posts or tweets are made on, or to, its official account.

A Canadian decision has found that an employer failed to adequately protect its employees from abuse on the employer’s social media channel. Could it happen here in Australia?
The Canadian decision
In a recent labour arbitration ruling in Ontario, Canada, Arbitrator Robert […]

By | June 6th, 2017 ||

Australia: Post-employment restraints

Protecting the interests of a business, including confidential proprietary information and customer relationships, is increasingly challenging for business owners. The law offers only limited protection of confidential information and in the modern context, in which information is more vulnerable than it has ever been, it is important to ensure that your employees are subject to an enforceable contractual obligation. There is also nothing at common law or statute to prevent a former employee from […]

By | June 5th, 2017 ||