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On April 28, 2021, the Ontario government announced that it will introduce legislation to create a temporary 3-day paid leave that employees could take for various reasons related to COVID-19, [...]

On April 16, 2021, the Ontario government announced that it would extend the provincial declaration of emergency and the province-wide stay-at-home order, and would implement additional and [...]

Today, April 19, 2021, the federal government announced its 2021 budget (the “Budget”), which laid out several measures intended to support the country through the third wave of the COVID-19 [...]

In its recent decision in Marazzato v Dell Canada Inc. [Marazzato], the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (the “Court”) confirmed that the onus is on an employee to prove that the pandemic [...]

Saskatchewan and British Columbia (“BC”) have become the first Canadian jurisdictions to enact legislation which provide employees with time off to be vaccinated for COVID-19. In particular, on [...]

A recent decision by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (the “Tribunal”), Sharma v City of Toronto [Sharma], is the first in the province to consider an application challenging a municipal [...]

On April 7, 2021, the province of Ontario declared a state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic for the third time, and announced that it would issue another province-wide [...]

On April 1, 2021, the Ontario government announced that it would impose a province-wide “emergency brake” shutdown beginning on Saturday, April 3, 2021 at 12:01 a.m. due to a surge in COVID-19 [...]