News & Events

Arleen Huggins will co-chair and co-moderate the OBA’s 19th Annual Current Issues in Employment Law Webinar on May 18, 2021. For more information about the webinar, please click here.  

Arleen Huggins will be speaking at the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans’ Conference on May 11, 2021. Arleen will be participating in a panel discussion on “Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) in the Workplace”. For more information about the conference, please click here.

Pension and benefit plan administrators and trustees process a substantial amount of personal information about individuals in order to provide benefits to employees, retirees, pensioners and surviving spouses. Privacy legislation, such as Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act (PIPEDA), imposes a legal framework around how the personal information collection by pension and benefit plan

To review the news articles, please click on the links below: Thorneloe shouldn’t be held responsible for mismanagement at LU, court hears – CTV News Laurentian has ‘path forward’ after 1st phase of restructuring, but can’t rest on laurels, court hears – Sudbury.com Laurentian created ‘manufactured crisis’ to cut ties with 3 schools for $10M

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) recently dismissed a complaint which alleged that it was discriminatory for a grocery store to refuse to allow a customer to enter without wearing a mask. In a decision dated March 31, 2021, The Customer v. The Store, 2021 BCHRT 39 (CanLII) the Tribunal dismissed the complaint

Koskie Minsky LLP is pleased to announce that 15 of the Firm’s lawyers were chosen by their fellow professionals to be listed in the 2021 edition of The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory compiles lists of outstanding professionals by conducting peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their

On April 19, 2021, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the federal government’s 2021 budget, “A Recovery Plan for Jobs, Growth, and Resilience.”  In addition to confirming the federal government’s intention to proceed with certain previously announced tax measures affecting specified multi-employer pension plans (“SMEPs”) and health and welfare trusts, the 2021 budget  does contain some

James Harnum will co-chair the Ontario Bar Association Program: Intersection of Pensions and Benefits Law and Insolvency Law, on April 16, 2021. The Program will take place via live webinar. Additionally, Andrew Hatnay will be part of a stellar faculty that will examine the issues that need to be resolved when a company with a

In Sharma v. Toronto (City), 2020 HRTO 949 (CanLII), the Applicant alleged that By-Law 541-2020 (the “By-Law”), which requires businesses and other establishments that are open to the public to adopt a policy that members of the public are not permitted entry to, or otherwise remain within, any enclosed space unless they are wearing a

In its 2021 budget, released on March 24, the Ontario Government announced that it will amend Regulation 909 under the Pension Benefits Act (the “PBA”), to require pension plan administrators to calculate and report their plan’s Pension Benefits Guarantee Fund (“PBGF”) claim exposure.  The Budget does not specify how a plan’s PBGF claim exposure will