Canada: Employment and HR

An HR compliance audit helps employers proactively align their policies and practices with current employment laws while identifying potential gaps before they become costly legal issues.

The government of Ontario continues to advance a series of workplace reforms that will impact employers across multiple sectors. Recent announcements include proposed amendments to the Employment Standards Act...

When a senior software developer secretly creates competing software on his own time, who owns the copyright? The Ontario Court of Appeal's decision in Nexus Solutions Inc. v. Krougly clarifies the boundaries of employer ownership over employee-created work, establishing that broad job descriptions alone cannot secure intellectual property rights without clear contractual terms or direct involvement in the creation process.

The duty to accommodate a disability may feel like a burden to some employers. It prevents them from applying a one-size-fits-all approach to employees and the workplace. However, with a better understanding of the duty and a framework for approaching accommodation requests, employers may find the process clearer, more predictable, and far less burdensome than anticipated.

La notion d’accident survenu « à l’occasion du travail » pour les lésions professionnelles survenues au Québec est indissociable de l’analyse de la frontière entre sphère personnelle et sphère professionnelle. Bien qu’elle soit au cœur de la Loi sur les accidents du travail et les maladies professionnelles (« LATMP »), cette notion n’est pas définie par le législateur, laissant à la jurisprudence le soin d’en tracer les limites.

In Québec, determining whether an accident occurred "in the course of work" necessarily involves analyzing the boundary between a person's personal and professional spheres. Although this concept is central to the Act respecting industrial accidents and occupational diseases (the "Act"), it is not defined under the Act, leaving it to case law to clarify its limits. Three recent decisions from the Administrative Labour Tribunal (the "Tribunal" or "ALT") further illustrate that, in the absence of a statutory

Welcome to the April issue of Blakes Competitive Edge, a monthly publication of the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group.

Le 26 mars 2026, le gouvernement de l’Ontario a présenté son budget de 2026 (le « budget 2026 »), qui comprend un certain nombre de mesures liées aux régimes de retraite.

The gig economy, remote work, and the rise of project-based hiring have made it increasingly common for businesses to engage workers outside of a traditional employment relationship.

This decision highlights that an employer is entitled to rely on the representations made by a candidate or an employee, especially for executive-level roles. Any intentional misrepresentation can be used to establish just cause to dismiss an employee

In Tudor v Accurate Screen Ltd., 2026 ABKB 237 (Yamauchi, J), the Court found an employer had just cause to dismiss an employee who made misrepresentations on his resume.

Ontario's approach to interpreting termination clauses has departed materially from the careful balance of competing interests articulated over 30 years ago in Machtinger v HOJ Industries Ltd.