Blog Posts
Ed Canning
Jun 30, 2018
A Tale of Two Offices.
Ed Canning
Jun 16, 2018
Peter was offered a job as an independent contractor with a consulting company that was to last six months. The consulting company was providing technical services to a large retailer.
Ed Canning
Jun 02, 2018
Sometimes what you do outside of work can end up costing you your job. When we talk about criminal convictions, both the crime and your position matter.
Ed Canning
May 19, 2018
All workers have the right to refuse unsafe working conditions without reprisal from their employers.
Ed Canning
May 05, 2018
QUESTION: After 10 years of service in a supervisory position I was recently terminated by my employer without any explanation. I have received only positive feedback and yet they replaced me soon after I was let go.
Ed Canning
Apr 21, 2018
Usually, there are two things to talk about when somebody is terminated without just cause. First there is the
Employment Standards Act which sets out minimum entitlements.
Ed Canning
Apr 02, 2018
Bob and Doug had been working as janitors at the local university for 17 years. One day they were sitting in Bob’s car during their break in the campus parking lot when university security arrived.
Ed Canning
Mar 17, 2018
The fact that women are still paid, very often, less money for the same or similar work as their male counterparts, is, unfortunately, not news. The provincial government has introduced legislation to attempt to combat this malingering sore.
Ed Canning
Mar 03, 2018
Many employers suffer from a misapprehension about significantly changing terms of employment. They think that if the change is a direct result of business-related reorganization and not personal in any way that the employee cannot take the position they have been constructively dismissed…terminated.
Ed Canning
Feb 19, 2018
Part of my job is to inform people about employment law and how it works. Some of my time is spent dispelling myths about employment law. I call them donut shop law as that is mostly where these myths circulate.