Independent Contractors

A Calgary energy services company has been ordered to pay its former chief financial officer $69,771.84, including $30,000 in aggravated damages, after the court found the company acted in bad …

A Canadian product development director who sued Zenova Group for wrongful dismissal has won the right to pursue his case in Ontario, after the Court of Appeal for Ontario overturned… …

A seed salesman who worked for ProRich Seeds for nearly two decades was a dependent contractor entitled to reasonable notice on termination, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled,… …

A group of Ontario Uber drivers and delivery workers pursuing a class action against Uber will have to make 10 additional class members available for examination for discovery, after the …

The Ontario Labour Relations Board has rejected a worker’s requests to have its vice-chair step aside for bias and to reconsider an earlier ruling that barred him from adding a …

A truck driver who spent more than eight years hauling bread deliveries for an Alberta trucking company was an employee, not an independent contractor, and was fired without notice rather …

An Alberta labour tribunal has found that a temporary foreign worker brought to Canada to serve as an office administrator was an employee throughout his entire engagement — and never …

A welder who worked for an Ontario construction company for more than two years without a contract, pay stubs, or source deductions has been awarded $13,933.09 in unpaid wages and …

A British Columbia employment standards tribunal has upheld a ruling requiring an Alberta-based publisher to pay wages, commissions, and vacation pay to a former worker who performed her job entirely …

Ontario’s Divisional Court has upheld most of a certified class action alleging that Pizza Nova delivery drivers were misclassified as independent contractors, while striking down a conspiracy claim t… Free …