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By Vey Willetts LLP | 3 Minutes Read September 17, 2018

Paying the price: Ontario court reminds employers to carefully consider their approach to litigation

It is important for businesses to carefully consider their response to an employee’s wrongful dismissal claim.

Article by Vey Willetts LLP / Payroll / allegations of fraud, bad faith litigation tactics, employee fraud, employment law, legal costs, litigation, wrongful dismissal action, wrongful dismissal claim, wrongful dismissal disputes, wrongful dismissal litigation, wrongful dismisssal

By Doug MacLeod, MacLeod Law Firm | 3 Minutes Read February 11, 2014

Bill 147: Recovering legal costs at the Ontario human rights tribunal

On December 4, 2013, the Ontario government introduced Bill 147, Human Rights Code Amendment Act (Awarding of Costs), 2013 which gives the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal the power to make cost orders against employers and employees. If Bill 147 is passed into law then the Tribunal would have a number of decisions to make.

Article by Doug MacLeod, MacLeod Law Firm / Human Rights, Payroll / 2013, application was frivolous, Bill 147, employment law, human rights claim, human rights code, Human Rights Code Amendment Act (Awarding of Costs), legal costs, Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, Recovering legal costs, Rules of Civil Procedure

By McCarthy Tétrault LLP | 2 Minutes Read January 7, 2014

Cost orders under the Ontario Human Rights Code?

A common complaint we hear from employers who are engaged in proceedings before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (Tribunal) is that regardless of the merits of the complaint, or the end result, the employer is burdened with the legal costs of successfully defending a complaint.

Article by McCarthy Tétrault LLP / Human Rights, Payroll / awarding of costs of proceedings, canadian employment law, employment law, frivolous and vexatious nature of complaints, Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, legal costs, Ontario Human Rights Code

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