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Nancy Shapiro will be speaking at the OBA Labour and Employment Law Program, being held on May 9, 2019 9am to 4:30pm at Twenty Toronto Street Conferences and Events (OBA Conference Centre). Six and a half full professionalism hours just in the nick of time and a great program line up. Nancy will discuss “Privacy

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. For additional information about the Moot, please

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

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

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

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

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 click here. For

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.

Andrew Hatnay will be speaking at the 16th Annual Review of Insolvency Law Conference on February 1, 2019. The Conference will take place at The Queen Elizabeth Hotel, in Montreal. Andrew will be speaking on “UFCW v Rose of Sharon: Do Receivers have a Duty to Bargain?”. To review the Conference agenda, please click here.

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