Saskatchewan and British Columbia Become First Canadian Jurisdictions to Offer Job-Protected Vaccination Leaves
Saskatchewan and British Columbia (“BC”) have become the first Canadian jurisdictions to enact legislation which provide employees with time off to be vaccinated for COVID-19.
The Ontario Government has Announced that WSIB Premiums can be Deferred for 6 Months for All Businesses due to COVID-19
On March 26, 2020, as part of measures to provide financial relief to employers coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ontario government announced premium reporting and payment to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
The New WSIB Rate Framework Is Almost Here: What Employers Need to Know
As regular readers of our blog know, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (“WSIB”) has been developing a new Rate Framework
New Employer-Friendly Legislation on the Horizon
Since its election this summer, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government has been busy reforming Ontario’s labour and employment laws to make them more employer-friendly
Updates on the Planned CPP Enhancement
Back in June, we mentioned how the federal government and a majority of its provincial counterparts – including the Government of Ontario – reached an agreement in principle
CPP Stops ORPP in Its Tracks
On Monday, the Ontario government confirmed that the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) will not be launched in 2018 as planned since the majority of the provinces