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Employees should provide enough lead time for their replacement to be found, or they could get dinged for wrongful resignation. Read more.

An Ontario court sided with a disabled Ontario woman against her insurer saying a higher penalty was needed to deter bad behaviour. Read on.

An Ontario court sided with a disabled Ontario woman against her insurer saying a higher penalty was needed to deter bad behaviour. Read on.

An Ontario court sided with a disabled Ontario woman against her insurer saying a higher penalty was needed to deter bad behaviour. Read on.

Howard Levitt and Rob Lilly In the fall, we wrote about the largest punitive damages award against ...

A recent Canada Industrial Relations Board decision has raised questions about the threshold that individuals must meet to be considered dependent contractors who are therefore entitled to reasonable notice on termination without just cause. Dependent contractors, while not formally considered employees because of the degree of control and independence they enjoy, are workers who offer […]

Helping an aggrieved employee find a new job can reduce a companys severance payments, say legal experts Howard Levitt and Rob Lilly. Read on.

By Howard Levitt and Rob Lilly Employers who sit idly by after terminating an employee do so at their peril. When an employee sues, our advice is ...

An Insurer opted for trial by jury in a denied claims case — a decision that ended up backfiring badly. Read about the historic case here.

An Insurer opted for trial by jury in a denied claims case — a decision that ended up backfiring badly. Read about the historic case here.