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Taking Sexual Misconduct Seriously

April 15, 2022 By Brian Babcock When is sexual misconduct by one employee against a fellow worker grounds for dismissal for cause? This requires an analysis of the seriousness of the misconduct. In most dismissal cases, a single, brief isolated incident of misconduct is not considered serious enough to warrant dismissal – it fails to […]

What’s the Difference: The Oppression Remedy and Derivative Actions

April 15, 2022 By Brian Babcock We have written several recent articles about oppression remedies – a tool created by the Ontario Business Corporations Act which allows stakeholders in a corporation to claim relief for misconduct by the directing minds of the corporation which unfairly disregards their reasonable expectations, causing them harm personally. Oppression remedy actions […]