Emond Harnden

Boutique employment law firm Emond Harnden proud to reach major milestone

Emond Harnden marked a major milestone when it hired its 50th lawyer this year.

Black Tie Bingo keeps ball rolling, supports specialized care at Bruyère

Under the B, for Bahamas. That’s where Giselle Bergeron-Raganold will eventually be headed after winning the trip at Black Tie Bingo for the Bruyère Foundation,

EH Lawyer Marianne Abou-Hamad discusses the danger of contracts

How one contract mistake cost a business more than $500K

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Sometimes, the worst kind of termination clause is the one left out of your employmee contract – a hard lesson one business recently learned.

Emond Harnden associate Kyle Shimon on temporary layoffs

Why pandemic temporary layoffs could still cause business headaches

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While the pandemic is seemingly in the rearview mirror, many businesses are still grappling with the fallout. A recent temporary layoffs case has some lessons.

PSAC strike could have domino effect for unionized workers: labour experts

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Jock Climie, a management-side labour and employment lawyer with Ottawa-based Emond Harnden, says inflation is lending itself to higher militancy in unionized sectors, adding PSAC’s

Is your biz or IT consultant your employee? Time to check the fine print, says government of Ontario

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The ESA has a new exemption, and the OHSA is addressing the risk of opioid overdoses for workers on the job.

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There’s a new Ontario law that employers need to know

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The pandemic has led many employers to embrace work-from-home arrangements with their employees, but that doesn’t mean they can’t check up on them. “The lines

Demystifying an employee’s “right” to disconnect

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The pandemic brought many new realities for employers to navigate, one being Ontario is Bill 27, a new law that is erroneously being called the

Clearing the air on Ontario’s ‘disconnecting from work’ policies

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As the June 2 deadline for employers in Ontario to have a policy on how employees can disconnect from work quickly approaches, lawyers like Céline

What changing COVID-19 restrictions mean for employers

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As the recent Omicron wave slows down, public health officials are easing pandemic restrictions – in some cases, dropping vaccine passports and in-door mask use.