Labour & Employment
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September 24, 2024
Canada inks halibut fishing deal with France; begins Beaufort Sea boundary talks with U.S. this fall
Canada has cut a deal with France on sharing the fishing quota for the total allowable catch Canada sets for Atlantic halibut, and Ottawa has also created a “joint task force” with the U.S. government to negotiate the disputed Canada-U.S. boundary in the Beaufort Sea.
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September 24, 2024
Safeguarding intellectual property: Key insights for employers
In today’s dynamic business environment, companies are dedicating substantial resources to the creation of innovative products, technologies and processes to gain a competitive edge. However, the value of these innovations can be jeopardized if intellectual property ownership is not clearly established and protected within the employment context. It can be crucial for companies to ensure that they obtain and retain ownership of intellectual property developed by their employees and, in some cases, even intellectual property created by their contractors.
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September 23, 2024
Toronto office of Hicks Morley welcomes 3 associates
Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Story LLP recently announced the addition of Jennifer Li, Lukas Furlan and Zachary Demers as associates in the firm’s Toronto office.
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September 20, 2024
Canadian Judicial Council says guidelines coming for federal judges’ use of AI, social media
As part of their two-day fall meeting in Charlottetown this week, the chief and associate-chief justices of the nation’s superior courts discussed their progress in creating guidelines for federal judges’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media, the Canadian Judicial Council (CJC) says.
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September 19, 2024
Treasury Board president Anita Anand gets second Cabinet post as transport minister
Liberal MP Anita Anand, the president of the federal Treasury Board and former defence minister in the Liberal government, has taken on the additional post of minister of transportation.
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September 19, 2024
Bar groups, regulators condemn Manitoba NDP’s ouster of lawyer MLA over Nygard connection
The Law Society of Manitoba, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada (FLSC) and Crown and defence bar groups are deploring comments publicly made by Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew and Mike Moyes, chair of the governing NDP caucus, that purported to justify expelling a Winnipeg criminal lawyer from their caucus because he works at a law firm that defends Peter Nygard, a high-profile Manitoban recently convicted of multiple sex crimes.
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September 18, 2024
Federal government announces changes to temporary foreign worker and residence programs
The federal government has announced changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) effective Sept. 26, prompted by a softening labour market and aimed at further reducing "the reliance of Canadian employers” on the program. In addition, Ottawa is managing temporary resident arrivals by reducing the cap on international student study permits.
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September 18, 2024
Paralegal grads launch proposed, $10M class action alleging problems with Fanshawe College program
Former and current student are seeking over $10 million in damages from Fanshawe College in a proposed class action alleging that its paralegal program repeatedly failed to meet Law Society of Ontario requirements and left students unprepared for licensing examinations and legal practice.
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September 18, 2024
What to do if your employee has been arrested | Stuart Rudner
Every now and then, we get a call from a client that has an employee who has been arrested or possibly convicted and incarcerated. The question they ask is whether they now have just cause to fire the employee, have to keep their job open for them or what they are supposed to do.
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September 16, 2024
Federal Court CJ says huge funding shortfall for translation will delay rulings, access to justice
A new statutory duty that requires the Federal Court to simultaneously issue its “precedential” rulings in both French and English — without Parliament also providing the many millions of dollars the court needs to carry out its task — will spark judgment delays and exacerbate translation backlogs unless the government steps up with adequate resources, Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton tells Law360 Canada.