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Don’t forget the “precedented” business risks: liability claims

With Ontario beginning the process of “re-opening”, businesses with public facing services need to shift their focus managing the risk of operating in a pandemic and ensure they do not inadvertently expose themselves to more familiar forms of liability.

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Tax Freedom Day is May 19 – but there’s not much to celebrate

This year, Tax Freedom Day comes much earlier than usual because the estimates of income and total taxes for average Canadian families have been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 recession.

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Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s back to work we go – Employer return-to-work considerations in the post-COVID-19 era

In the post-COVID-19 work world, employers must be ready to face the new challenges of what a return to work entails. With daily press conferences and briefings people have a heightened awareness, and in some cases fear, about what the current environment looks like. With that in mind, as stay-at-home orders and restrictions start to lift and more businesses begin to open and resume “regular” operations, it’s important for employers to start putting return-to-work plans and protocols in place.

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