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Addressing Legitimate Safety-Based Work Refusals During the COVID-19 Pandemic With the start of the 2020-2021 school year, more and more employers are beginning to return employees to working [...]

Addressing Misconduct in the Time of COVID-19: Navigating Workplace Harassment The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many challenges for employers to navigate. As we have discussed previously in this [...]

Risks of Physical Disability Discrimination in Light of COVID-19 Prevention Policies Across Canada, most employers have heightened health and safety obligations to prevent the spread of COVID-19 [...]

Back to School During a Pandemic: Risks, Considerations and Best Practices for Employers As employers continue to adapt their employees’ working arrangements amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, [...]

Diversity and Inclusion Considerations: Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace Over the past few months, businesses have been dealing with numerous challenges. While many of the key [...]

Employment Standards: Assessing Risks as Employees Return to Work under the “New Normal” As many businesses resume operations under Stage 3 of Ontario’s reopening, many employers may face [...]

Accommodating Physical Disability: Navigating Obligations in the Post-Pandemic Workplace As many businesses resume operations now that most of Ontario has entered Stage 3 of its reopening, many [...]

Family Status Accommodation: Adapting to the Evolving Nature of Caregiving Needs As many businesses reopen and most of the province begins to enter Stage 3, one of the challenges employers are [...]

Workplace Health and Safety and Due Diligence: The Importance of Risk Assessments As many businesses reopen and most of the province begins to enter Stage 3, one of the challenges employers are [...]

Unravelling Work Refusals: When Employer Mental Health Accommodation Obligations May Arise This is the first post of our new blog series, Return to Work Case Studies from the Front Lines, which [...]