Canadian HR Reporter quoted Hicks Morley’s Kathryn Meehan in an April 17, 2017 article titled “Do we need a law banning high heels?” The article explores gender discrimination in the workplace rooted in dress codes that require women to wear high heels…
Practice Area: Workplace Safety & Insurance
Mariana Kamenetsky
Mariana provides advice to federally and provincially regulated employers on all aspects of workers’ compensation claims and appeals, such as initial entitlement, accommodation and related human rights and arbitration proceedings.
WSIB Rate Framework Approved
On November 14, 2016, the Board of Directors of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) approved its new Rate Framework which fundamentally changes the way the WSIB classifies Schedule 1 employers and sets their premium rates. The Rate Framework has a targeted implementation date of January 2019. On the same date, the Board of…
Ontario Announces New Sexual Violence and Harassment Intervention Training for Bartenders and Servers
On September 8, 2016, significant amendments to Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) outlined in the Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act (Supporting Survivors and Challenging Sexual Violence and Harassment) came into force…
Reminder: New Employer Workplace Harassment Obligations Now in Force
Effective today, significant reforms to the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) are coming into force which place additional duties on employers with respect to the prevention of workplace harassment. As previously reported, these changes were outlined in Bill 132, Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act (Supporting Survivors and Challenging Sexual Violence and Harassment), 2016…
Top Listed in Best Lawyers® in Canada
Hicks Morley once again ranked #1 in Canada in the field of Labour and Employment Law in Best Lawyers® in Canada, 2017. Hicks Morley has more listed lawyers in the area of Labour and Employment Law than any other firm in Canada. Hicks Morley lawyers have also been listed in the Employee Benefits Law, the Privacy and Data Security Law and the Workers’ Compensation Law sections…
The Latest Update on WSIB Rate Framework Modernization
As we previously reported the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) proposed a new Rate Framework Modernization (Proposed Framework) in March 2015 which, if adopted, would fundamentally change the way the WSIB classifies Schedule 1 employers and sets their premium rates…
Advises clients regarding workplace investigations relating to, among other things, theft, harassment, discrimination, bullying, abuse, and violence.
Advises clients regarding workplace investigations relating to, among other things, theft, harassment, discrimination, bullying, abuse, and violence.
Regularly provides training on the use of medical marijuana in the workplace, workplace accommodation, workplace investigations, and workplace bullying and harassment.
Regularly provides training on the use of medical marijuana in the workplace, workplace accommodation, workplace investigations, and workplace bullying and harassment.
Reaching Out – Eleventh Edition
In this Issue: The Human Rights Tribunal rules that a man’s goatee is not protected by the Ontario Human Rights Code, WSIB and Mental Stress Claims and more…