Levitt LLP

09/16/2019

Tune in to yesterday's episode of Employment Law:

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09/16/2019

Howard Levitt joins Jerry Agar's panel on Round Table:

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09/10/2019

"Perhaps the most worrisome of these changes is the government’s commitment to more “flexible work arrangements.” The fact is, these changes will instead unravel carefully crafted collective agreements and cause employment disruption."

Original article by Howard Levitt published in the Financial Post, September 9th, 2019. The Liberal government’s promise to legislate “work-life balance” for federal employees is smoke and mirrors, a pandering virtue signal designed to obtain votes, heedless of its likely impact on employment....

09/10/2019

Did you miss Sunday's episode of Employment Law? Find it right here 👉

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09/10/2019

Catch up on last week's episodes of Jerry Agar's Round Table featuring Sunira Chaudhri and Howard Levitt:

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09/10/2019

"By using resources on cases such as Yaniv’s, human rights tribunals have less left for those whom they were set up to assist. Worse, the cause of human rights is at risk of becoming trivialized by these complaints and the resources they utilize."

Original article by Howard Levitt published in the Financial Post, September 4th, 2019. The case of Jessica Yaniv, the transgendered woman who filed multiple human rights complaints in British Columbia after salon workers refused to provide waxing service for her untransitioned genitalia, proves tha...

09/05/2019

Find out what we discussed on Jerry Agar's Round Table last week!

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09/05/2019

Catch up on the latest episodes of Employment Law with Howard Levitt

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08/15/2019

According to a survey, people are really, REALLY doing this at work (we can't believe it either) >>

08/13/2019

Foodora workers vote to unionize, but are they technically employees? Muneeza and Amanda Lang discuss this debate on BNN Bloomberg:

Muneeza Sheikh, employment lawyer at Levitt LLP, joins BNN Bloomberg's Amanda Lang for a look at the challenges that workers in the gig economy face. She also discusses the potential ramifications from growing calls for better working conditions and the growing chorus of workers hoping to unionize.

07/22/2019

Listen to the latest episode of Employment Law with Canada's top employment lawyer.

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07/22/2019

"Employers facing wrongful dismissal actions when there is a termination without cause should always consider whether it is reasonable to recall the employee to work and perhaps provide them working notice of a later termination date." Read more>>

David Gent had been working for Strone Inc. for 23 years when its business significantly declined. It laid off 22 employees permanently in January 2015 with severance, but only temporarily laid off Gent and two other employees because of their length of service, skillset and experience. Gent was tol...