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March 31, 2025

An employee’s political activity—intentional or not—on company devices could expose your organization to legal liability.

Vaccination Policies and Your Workplace: Critical Considerations!

August 29, 2021

The Ontario Government is requiring all employers in select industries to implement a vaccination policy by September 7, 2021.

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Expectation of Privacy in Text Message: Supreme Court of Canada Rules

March 26, 2019

Can Canadians reasonably expect the text messages they send to remain private, even after the messages have reached their destination, and is the stat Read More...

Death Knell for Random Alcohol Testing in the Workplace? Not Quite

September 23, 2013

Canada-United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce Newsletter - Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, Local 30 v. Irving Pulp & Paper, Ltd. Read More...

Death Knell for Random Alcohol Testing in the Workplace? Not Quite
July 25, 2013
The Supreme Court of Canada weighed in on the issue of random alcohol testing in the workplace, ultimately deciding in Communications, Energy and Pape Read More...

Supreme Court of Canada – Pornography on Work Computer – Qualified Right To Privacy!
October 22, 2012
In R. v. Richard Cole, 2012 SCC 53, the Supreme Court of Canada reviewed the Court of Appeal's decision that an employee's rights were infringed by th Read More...

Labour Ministry Violates Its Employees’ Privacy
April 12, 2011
Privacy is an increasingly complex issue in the contemporary workplace, and violations are certainly not confined to the private sector. Read the late Read More...

Workplace Privacy, an Increasingly Important Issue in the Information Age
October 1, 2010
Workplace privacy is a very complicated area of employment law and can arise in many different situations involving the collection, use and disclosure Read More...

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