The Royal Bank of Canada is facing a lawsuit seeking $800 million in damages over an alleged failure to properly compensate commissioned employees for vacations and statutory holidays.
Ontario's new requirement for companies to have right-to-disconnect policies might help some employees, but others might not see or hear much of a difference.
Ontario’s ‘right to disconnect’ law came into effect on June 2, requiring companies to develop policies that allow employees to disconnect outside of regular working hours, but what does the law mean in practice?
Canadian employers are firing or putting on unpaid leave thousands of workers who refused to get COVID-19 shots, squeezing an already tight labour market and raising prospects of potentially disruptive legal challenges.