Aecon Utilities Inc. has been fined $175,000 after a worker was fatally injured in a water-and-silt slurry that filled an excavation trench during heavy rainfall at a King City worksite. …
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PREMIUM Former IESO worker must repay $70K after breaching termination deal, rules Ontario court
A former Independent Electricity System Operator employee must repay $70,000 she received under a 2011 termination deal after Ontario’s Divisional Court dismissed her bid to overturn a labour arbitrator’s decision… …
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A Boston Pizza manager in Pembroke, Ont., has been fined $15,000 for giving falsified documents to a provincial labour investigator. Sameer Devgon, the manager of a Boston Pizza franchise at …
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IBM hit with substantial indemnity costs after wrongful dismissal trial
The Superior Court of Justice – Ontario has ordered IBM Canada to pay $215,000 in costs to a former employee, awarding the costs on a substantial indemnity basis because of …
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An Ontario judge has ordered Canaccord Genuity to pay nearly $800,000 in partial indemnity costs to a former investment banker who won a wrongful dismissal action, but declined to award …
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Two Jamaican migrant workers will receive a combined total of more than $178,000 after the Ontario Labour Relations Board found their employer’s compensation orders did not adequately address losses t… …
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Racist emails not enough to boost costs against fired law clerk in wrongful dismissal case
An Ontario Small Claims Court judge has ordered a self-represented plaintiff to pay just over $3,000 in costs after his wrongful dismissal action against a Toronto law firm and one …
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LaSalle, Ont., police union challenges scope of harassment probe at labour board
The Ontario Labour Relations Board has directed a police association to identify which workplace harassment allegations it considers outside the scope of an employer-led investigation, after the union… Free Membership …
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PREMIUM Toronto Hydro vaccine policy upheld but workers get ESA pay
Toronto Hydro had just cause to terminate workers who refused to comply with its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, an Ontario arbitrator has ruled, but those workers remain entitled to termination… …
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Ontario engineer wins leave to pierce corporate veil in fight over unpaid commissions
An Ontario court has granted a professional engineer leave to amend his wrongful dismissal claim to add a personal liability claim against the president and sole director of his former …


