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The federal government announced that it will suspend the Policy on COVID-19 Vaccination for the Core Public Administration (CPA) Including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (“vaccination [...]

On June 3, 2022, the Public Health Agency of Canada announced that the federal government will end distribution of COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Tests (“RAT”) to the provinces and territories by [...]

On June 8, 2022, the Ontario government announced that the existing mask requirements for most higher-risk indoor settings (“Mask Requirements”) expires on June 11, 2022, at 12:00 a.m. and will [...]

In the recent decision of Gracias v. Dr. David Walt Dentistry [Gracias], the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (“ONSC”) held that Canada Emergency Response Benefit (“CERB”) payments should not be [...]

Due to a new decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal (“ONCA”), it is now more likely that Ontario employees can successfully claim constructive dismissal because they were temporarily laid off [...]

On April 22, 2022, the Ontario government announced that the existing mask requirements for certain higher-risk indoor settings (“Mask Requirements”), as well as the Office of the Chief Medical [...]

Previously, we wrote about three recent arbitration decisions where mandatory vaccination policies were upheld as reasonable. A brief summary of each of these decisions is below. Extendicare [...]

In a recent arbitration decision, Unifor Local 973 and Coca-Cola Bottling Limited [Coca-Cola Bottling Ltd.], the employer’s mandatory vaccination policy was upheld as reasonable. This [...]

In a recent arbitration decision, The Toronto District School Board and CUPE, Local 4400 [TDSB], an employer’s mandatory vaccination policy was upheld as reasonable. This decision is [...]

In a recent arbitration decision, Extendicare Lynde Creek Retirement Residence and United Food & Commercial Workers Canada, Local 175 [Extendicare], the arbitrator upheld an [...]