Canadian Employment Law Today

1 week ago | hrreporter.com | Jim Wilson

Between 2023 and 2024, eight workers filed complaints with ministry over hiring for Canadian Tire store in Ontario. By Jun 20, 2025 Two Alberta-based companies are appealing an Ontario Ministry of Labour decision that found they unlawfully charged temporary foreign workers fees for job placements at a Canadian Tire store. Ontario has ordered Allison Jones Consulting Services and AJ Immigration Group to repay nearly $165,000 to temporary foreign workers.

1 week ago | hrreporter.com | Jim Wilson

Canadian companies’ ongoing struggles to fill open positions are being compounded by hiring mistakes, according to a new report from Robert Half. Overall, 88 per cent of hiring managers say they still find it difficult to source the talent they need. Additionally, 24 per cent admit to having made a hiring mistake in the past two years.

1 week ago | hrreporter.com | David Gelles

Exclusive to Canadian HR Reporter from Rudner Law. While Swifty employment lawyers are upset that we are probably not getting Reputation (Taylor’s Version) any time soon, or maybe ever, we can enjoy the next best thing - a fresh employment law decision. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice issued its decision in Taylor v. Salytics Inc., and this new Taylor track is a banger.

1 week ago | hrreporter.com | Jeffrey R. Smith

An British Columbia arbitrator has upheld the firing of a worker who knowingly submitted a falsified receipt for reimbursement and subsequently provided misleading information during the employer's investigation. “It's very rare where one offense will be enough to amount to common-law just cause or similiar discipline under a collective agreement,” says Melanie Samuels, chair of the Employment and Labour Group at Singleton Reynolds in Vancouver.

1 week ago | hrreporter.com | Jeffrey R. Smith

“When you’re going to terminate someone, you have to legitimately think through the termination, because perspective is really important.”  So says employment lawyer Natasha Atyeo of Grosman Gale Fletcher Hopkins LLP in Toronto, after an Ontario employer successfully defended itself against a worker’s complaint that her firing during her probationary period was a reprisal for raising workplace safety concerns.