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.
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.
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.
