In an award dated May 4, 2020, Arbitrator Stout addressed, among other things, critical aspects of the CMOH’s Directives respecting access to and use of personal protective equipment (PPE). In this HR HealthCheck, we provide an overview of this significant award (Award), a decision of notable impact to health care providers and health care workers alike, in both the Hospital and Long-Term Care sectors.
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Raising the Bar
Raising the Bar – Sixteenth Edition
· 14 min readIn this edition, we bring you quick summaries of key cases relating to limits on partial summary judgment, the importance of pleadings and the issues raised by inadvertent disclosure of privileged documents.
FTR Quarterly
2010 Fall Issue
· 1 min readLEGAL DEVELOPMENTS eProblems with eDiscovery FOCUS ON TEAM USA The Growing Need for U.S. Cross-border Expertise PROFILE The Art of the Deal Download PDF
FTR Now
In its March 3, 2010 decision in MTD Products Limited v. Baldin, 2010 ONSC 1344 (CanLII), the Ontario Superior Court of Justice was persuaded that a mistake had been made in the wording of an MTD Products Limited (“MTD”) pension plan provision, and ordered that the provision be rectified. Rectification had been sought by MTD…
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Defining “Employer” For Pension Funding Purposes
· 13 min readThe Financial Services Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) recently released a decision that discusses, in detail, who is the employer for funding purposes under the Pension Benefits Act (“PBA”). This decision will be of interest to employers who participate in pension plans with more than one employer, but are not multi-employer pension plans or “MEPPs”, if the…
FTR Quarterly
2008 Spring issue
· 1 min readFOCUS ON INFORMATION AND PRIVACY Employee privacy in an electronic world LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS Providing benefits after age 65 Drug testing laws continue to evolve PROFILE Employment litigation and beyond Download PDF