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		<title>Substratum of the Employment Contract Alive and Well</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Absent a legally enforceable employment contract dealing with entitlement on termination, an employer may only terminate an employee employed on an indefinite term for just cause or on reasonable notice or pay in lieu of such notice.  See for example, Machtinger v. HOJ Industries Ltd., [1992] 1 S.C.R. 986. When terminating an employee it is always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Production of Inspectors Notes etc…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.watershedlaw.com/?p=536</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting case came out of the Ontario Labour Relations Board last week.  The case, Dollarama LP v Marcelo, concerned a request for pre-hearing production in the context of a appeal of an order of an inspector under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.  The Company asked the Ministry of Labour to produce the following: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Non-Compete Bites the Dust</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restrictive Covenants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Courts in Canada simply don&#8217;t like to enforce non-competition covenants in employment agreements.  They also don&#8217;t like to fix drafting problems.  That has been the trend over the past 10 years and it continues to be the case with the Court of Appeal&#8217;s decision this week in Veolia ES Industrial Services Inc. v. Brulé.  In this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who’s an Employee under the Labour Relations Act?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Labour Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Status disputes come up in many applications for certification.  One or both the employer and union will argue that an individual whose name appears on the &#8220;voters list&#8221; submitted by the employer with its response to the application is not an employee within the meaning of the Labour Relations Act, 1995.  Or names might be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forum Selection Clauses in Contracts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.watershedlaw.com/?p=528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When drafting an employment agreement it is important to include a forum selection clause where the parties agree to the appropriate jurisdiction for hearing any dispute between them.  These provisions, while not critical in every case, can prove tremendously valuable where it is not clear which of two jurisdictions is appropriate for hearing the dispute. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Characterization of Settlement Monies – Get it Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.watershedlaw.com/?p=515</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a decision that will likely fly under the radar, the Federal Court of Appeal in Canada (Attorney General) v. Warren, 2012 FCA 74 (CanLII) considered the &#8220;treatment&#8221; of monies paid to an employee in settlement of a grievance. This was an application for judicial review of the decision of an Umpire under the Employment Insurance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Acquired Just Cause – Timing is Important</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Employers will sometimes discover things after an employee is terminated that gives them cause for concern.  Whether this post-termination misconduct amounts to “just cause” is a complex issue.  The issue was recently considered in Gillespie v. 1200333 Alberta Ltd. (which was an appeal of this judgment) where the employee was terminated, without cause, and removed certain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Length of Service – Sometimes Not an Easy Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment Standards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the absence of a legally enforceable contract dealing with entitlement on termination, it has been said that an employee employed for an indefinite term may only be terminated summarily for just cause or in the absence of just cause, upon reasonable advance notice or pay in lieu of such notice. Determining the period of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duty to Accommodate Requires a Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.watershedlaw.com/?p=494</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal did an excellent job of succinctly explaining the duty to accommodate in Black v. Etobicoke Ironworks: The duty to accommodate has procedural and substantive components. Procedurally, the employer has an obligation to take the necessary steps to determine what kinds of modifications or accommodations might be required in order to allow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Determine the Period of Reasonable Notice and What’s Mitigation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.watershedlaw.com/?p=490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although, on occasion, we see cases that try to tweak the way in which the period of reasonable notice at common law should be determined, in the end, the tried and true Bardal test continues to win the day and there&#8217;s really no reason to change. The most recent example is McGroarty v. Linita Design which is [...]]]></description>
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