News & Events
Koskie Minsky LLP Sponsors the Black Law Students’ Association of Canada’s Diversity Moot
January 26, 2019
Koskie Minsky LLP congratulates the Black Law Student’s Association of Canada on its 28th Annual National Conference and is pleased to once again be the 12th annual Julius Alexander Isaac Diversity Moot Premier Sponsor. We look forward to working with BLSA Canada this year and in the future.
Uber Class Action Back in Gear
January 22, 2019
In the Ontario Court of Appeal’s first decision of the year, Heller v Uber, 2019 ONCA 1, the court held that an arbitration clause in the terms that individual drivers are required to “accept” to become drivers for Uber breached the prohibition on contracting out of the Employment Standards Act (ESA), and was otherwise unconscionable
Expertise
Employment Law
Uber Class Action Back in Gear
January 22, 2019
In the Ontario Court of Appeal’s first decision of the year, Heller v Uber, 2019 ONCA 1, the court held that an arbitration clause in the terms that individual drivers are required to “accept” to become drivers for Uber breached the prohibition on contracting out of the Employment Standards Act (ESA), and was otherwise unconscionable
Practice Area
Labour Law
Choice of Law Clause Enforced
January 14, 2019
What will an Ontario Court do when faced with a California based employee who is seeking to enforce rights pursuant to a contract against his American employer, for termination of his employment? If his employment contract provides that the contract would be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of
Expertise
Employment Law
Ford Government Pre-Emptively Removes Power Workers’ Right to Strike with Bill 67
December 21, 2018
On December 20, 2018, the Ontario Progressive-Conservative government passed Bill 67 at third reading, a piece of special legislation preventing a strike by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) workers across the province. The legislation received Royal Assent the same day and is now in force. The Power Workers’ Union (PWU) represents approximately 6,000 workers employed by
Practice Area
Labour Law
Legal action against the Manitoba Development Centre
December 20, 2018
Koskie Minsky LLP commenced a class proceeding on behalf of the representative plaintiff, David Weremy against the Province on Manitoba in respect to the Manitoba Development Centre (“MDC”). “The boys were eating out of the garbage can, out of the toilet bowls”. To view this report published by CBC News Manitoba please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1402396227728/ For
Practice Area
Class Actions
David Rosenfeld Quoted in CBC News article about the Manitoba Development Centre Class Action
December 19, 2018
David Rosenfeld was quoted in the December 19, 2018 CBC News article “People simply, at no point in time, at any point in the years past, should ever be living in these circumstances. Period,”. To read the article, please click here.
Practice Area
Class Actions
Ford Government Tables Bill 66
December 11, 2018
Last week, the Ford Government tabled the Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act, 2018, more commonly known as Bill 66. Debate on the Bill will not begin until February 19, 2019, but given the substantial PC majority in the House, it is likely that some version of the Bill will receive Royal Assent in the spring of
Expertise
Employment Law
Ford Government Tables Bill 66
December 11, 2018
Last week, the Ford Government tabled the Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act, 2018, more commonly known as Bill 66. Debate on the Bill will not begin until February 19, 2019, but given the substantial PC majority in the House, it is likely that some version of the Bill will receive Royal Assent in the spring of
Practice Area
Labour Law
Arbitrator finds that employer discriminated against employee with respect to the administration of diabetes related care
December 10, 2018
In a recent decision, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 636 v. Tyco Integrated Fire and Security Canada Inc, Arbitrator Laura Trachuk found that an employer discriminated against an employee by requiring him to go to a separate area within the workplace to self-administer medical care related to Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is
Practice Area
Labour Law