On Thursday, September 28, Natalie C. MacDonald was named Employment Lawyer of the Year by Canadian HR Reporter. This prestigious national award was granted during a dinner reception at Toronto’s…
Court of Appeal upholds $200,000 Assessment of Damages in Sexual Assault Case
In Zando v. Ali, 2018 ONCA 680 (CanLII) the Court of Appeal upheld a damage award of $200,000 (Generals $175,000 and punitive damages of $25,000). The Plaintiff was a colleague of the…
Update to Extraordinary Damages in Canadian Employment Law
Natalie MacDonald is working on an update to her influential book, Extraordinary Damages in Canadian Employment Law. MacDonald completed the original in 2010 but tells AdvocateDaily.com that she hopes to have the revised version…
Google Ordered to Remove Offensive Search Results
Recently, I successfully secured an injunction against Google for the de-indexing of search results that came up when our client’s name was searched online. The problem, in particular, was that…
Domestic Abuse Impacts the Workplace Too
The #MeToo movement has put sexual harassment and violence in the workplace front and center. But what about violence that occurs in the personal lives of employees, such as domestic…
Privacy Commissioner: search engines have a duty to protect online reputations
In my practice, I’ve consulted with, and represented, individuals and corporations who have had inaccurate and, sometimes, hateful statements written about them online. In a recent case, those statements became…
MacDonald & Associates Welcomes Amelia Phillips and Heather Power
MacDonald & Associates is pleased to welcome two new Associates this month. Amelia is an Associate lawyer at MacDonald & Associates. After graduating from the International Baccalaureate, Amelia obtained an…
Should the Human Rights Tribunals Operate more like the Courts?
More and more, victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault are seeking justice through Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal system. There are a few reasons for this. Criminal courts do not…
Good Faith and the Unfettered Right to Terminate – the Ontario Court of Appeal Got it Right
By Tara Vasdani
The Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in Mohamed v. Information Systems Architects Inc., 2010 ONCA 248 on May 7, 2018. While some were quick to argue that an…
What to do about federally-regulated employees? Can you bring a federal human rights complaint within the body of a civil suit?
By Tara Vasdani
The Canadian Human Rights Act does not contain a provision akin to that of Ontario’s Human Rights Code specifically permitting a plaintiff to plead a human rights complaint within the body…