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SBH Reports, Winter 2008

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  • Preventing Violence At Work
  • Fall Protection Charges Under The Occupational Health And Safety Act
  • Overtime Class Action Litigation Update
  • Hiring Of Foreign Workers Made Easier

SBH Reports, Fall 2007

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  • Class Actions Risk: A Wake-Up Call?
  • "Integrated Regulatory Enforcement" Coming Soon
  • Collective Bargaining: A Constitutionally Protected Right, Rules The Supreme Court
  • "Family-Friendly Workplaces": Accommodating Family Status In The Workplace
  • Managing The Risks When Terminating The Long Term Disabled Employee

SBH Reports, Summer 2007

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  • New Human Rights Regime in Ontario: OHRC Introduces Enhanced Complaint Process (ECP), and Bill 107
  • Violence: Ministry of Labour Targets High-Risk Workplaces
  • How to Implement or Change Employment Agreements
  • Not Entirely No Fault: Navigating the Waters of WSIB Cost Transfers
  • Missing Deadline May No Longer Be Fatal

SBH Reports, Winter 2007         

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  • Crossing the Line Between Fact-Finding and Disciplinary Meetings
  • WSIB Proposes To Make Coverage Mandatory For Independent Operators In The Construction Industry
  • Complex New Confined Spaces Entry Regulations Now Law
  • High Wrongful Dismissal Damages Awards Are Here To Stay
  • Employment Standards Update

SBH Reports, Fall 2006                  

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  • Apprenticeship Training And Practices Fall Short Of OH&S Due Diligence
  • Applying For Work Permits at the Border: What Employers Need To Know
  • Why Provide Reference Letters?
  • WSIB Prosecutions: Should You Be Concerned?
  • TORT Remedies For Employee Harassment: Significant New Liabilities for Employers

SBH Reports, Spring 2006             

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  • Employers Liable For Cancelled Disability Insurance After Termination
  • Human Rights Reform In Ontario: What Does It Mean To Ontario Employers?
  • B.C. Court Awards $185,000 In Aggravated And Punitive Damages Against Employer For Actions Of Its Insurance Company
  • Is There A "Cap" on Notice?
  • Huge Costs Award In Honda Case
  • Navigating The Waters Of Labour Market Opinions
  • Smoke Free Ontario Act Regulations Unveiled

SBH Reports, Winter 2006             

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  • Hiring Foreign Students To Temporarily Work In Canada
  • Duty To Investigate Harassment Complaints
  • The End of Mandatory Retirement in Ontario: The Countdown Officially Begins
  • Employment Standards Update
  • NEER Changes 2006: The Sequel
  • Court Upholds Arbitrator's Decision That Employer Must Pay Ontario Health Premium
  • Court Rules That MOL Has No Jurisdiction Over OH&S At Airport Construction Project


SBH Reports, Fall 2005                  

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  • Butt Out! New Law Will Ban Smoking In Every Ontario Workplace May 31, 2006
  • Privacy Law: Keystroke Logging a No-No?
  • Dramatic Labour Law Changes Now In Effect
  • Release Of Ontario Human Rights Commissions's New Policy and Guidelines On Racism and Racial Discrimination
  • Accessibility For Ontarians With Disabilities Act, 2005
  • You Call That Construction! The Labour Board Reaffirms Expansive OHSA Definition Of Construction Project 

SBH Reports, Spring 2005     

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  • Stressful Meeting Can Lead to Workers' Compensation Benefits
  • Caution Workplaces Can't Afford Bullying Supervisors
  • Cut the Red Tape: Apply for Entry to Canada As A Business Visitor
  • Reconciling Overtime Assignments and Hours of Work Limits
  • MOL Announces Ticketing Crackdown in the Industrial Sector
                  

SBH Report, Winter 2005            

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  • Turning Back the Clock on Labour Relations in Ontario
  • Successfully Managing the Challenge of the Aging Workforce
  • The Arrival of Criminal Code Whistleblower Provisions: Impact on Labour and Employment Law
  • Rolling the Dice: The Do's and Don'ts of Applyinf for Work Permits at the Border
  • The ABC's of EI: Records of Employment and EI Appeal Hearings
                         

SBH Reports - Fall, 2004             

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  • Employer Beware: Rehiring Former Employees an Expensive Proposition on Termination
  • Is This the End of Frustration?
  • Sending Pornography by E-mail - Not Cause For Wrongful Dismissal
  • Hiring Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada
  • First Criminal OH&S Charges Laid
  • Targeted Employers: Beware Unprecedented OH&S Inspection and Enforcement Initiatives
  • Employees Entitled to Share of Pension Plan Surplus Upon Partial Wind-Up

SBH Reports - Summer, 2004       

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  • Navigating the Employment World of  2004: An Update
  • Human Rights Update: Evolution or Revolution?
  • Accommodation: Employers Struggle to Get It Right! Impact of the Duty to Accommodate on the Employer's Ability to Respond to Non-Culpable Absenteeism
  • The Present and the Future: Coming Soon to a Workplace Near You!
    • Compassionate Care Leave for Ontario Employees
    • Changes to Hours and Overtime Averaging Agreements
  • The Latest OH&S Developments
  • Reasonable Changes to Unreasonable Employee's Work Schedule Not Constructive Dismissal

SBH Reports - Winter, 2004          

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  • The State of Workplace Privacy Regulation in Ontario
  • Enhancements to NEER and CAD-7 Announced by WSIB
  • Corporate Criminal Liability for Workplace Safety is Law!  Bill C-45 Receives Royal Assent
  • Navigating the Waters of intra-Company Transfers Under NAFTA
  • A "Chronic" Pain for Ontario Employers
  • The Law In Brief
    • Ontario Government Raises Miminum Wage
    • Whither Mandatory Retirement?

SBH Reports - Fall, 2003 - Special Report by Barbara Humphrey

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  • Accommodation 2003 - Get it Right or Get Ready to Pay!
  • Employers Face Exposure to Liability for the Complainant's Legal Costs in Connection with Human Rights Complaints
  • Human Rights Compliance: Ontario Tribunals Are Getting Increasingly Serious About Employer Compliance and Remediation of Victims
  • Damages 20 Years Later: The Increasing Detriment to Employers of Protracted Human Rights Compliance Processes
  • Dramatic Increase in General Damages Awards
  • Sexual Harassment: Will They Ever Learn?



 
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