Employment Law

Attention: Employers!

June 14th, 2024 by Safia Lakhani

The landscape of employment law is ever‑shifting; there have been significant recent developments in the case‑law around the enforceability of termination clauses.

By law, employers are required to give employees reasonable notice of termination where they are terminated without cause and have entered into a contract for an “indefinite” term, or a series of consecutive fixed terms.

The question of what constitutes “reasonable notice” is less clear.

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Safia Lakhani will be presenting on employment issues at the Ontario Bar Association’s Panel

March 6th, 2024 by Iler Campbell

Safia Lakhani will be presenting on employment issues in the non-profit and charitable sector as part of the Ontario Bar Association’s Panel on March 21st, 2024.

Webinar recording: Vaccines & the Workplace: Where do we go from here?

November 4th, 2021 by Iler Campbell

A recording of this webinar is now online. This was the last webinar in our ‘Back to School’ series. See the other events, and watch recordings of them here.

With the return to work, many of us have questions abut the permissibility of mandatory vaccine policies. In this session Iler Campbell lawyer, Safia Lakhani, discusses the ins and outs of vaccine policies in the workplace and review the extent to which employers can rely on provincial or federal mandates in rolling them out.

Webinar recording: Occupational Health and Safety in the time of COVID-19

October 28th, 2021 by Iler Campbell

A recording of this webinar is now online. You can also download the slides as a pdf here.

These days, the duty of an employer to provide a safe and healthy workplace is raising far more questions than ever before, such as how to deal with complaints of harassment, what steps employers have to take as workplaces begin to reopen in the pandemic, and should employers be concerned about employees who work remotely? Iler Campbell lawyer Michael Hackl discuses some of the issues that employers should be aware of in order to comply with the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

Free webinar series: Back to School with Iler Campbell LLP!

September 20th, 2021 by Iler Campbell

Free webinar series: Back to School with Iler Campbell LLP

It’s that time of year! Join us for our ‘back to school’ webinar series this October and brush up on some important legal topics.

Read on for event descriptions and signup links. Can’t make an event? Make sure you’re signed up for our blog — we’ll send a notice when recordings are posted online. Continue reading “Free webinar series: Back to School with Iler Campbell LLP!”

Unvaccinated employees could in fact lose their jobs

July 30th, 2021 by Michael Hackl

This article was first posted to rabble.ca.

Earlier this year, I wrote a Pro Bono column on how people felt that COVID-19 restrictions were infringing on their rights and freedoms. At the risk of being seen as a “one trick pony,” I wanted to address another aspect of how COVID might be seen as infringing on our personal freedoms. Continue reading “Unvaccinated employees could in fact lose their jobs”