Unsolicited: The Blog

Uber is the best-known name in precarious employment world-wide. Precarious workers lack access to benefits, like health and dental, and want them. So Uber has proposed the creation of pooled benefit programs for its drivers as part of what it has dubbed Flexible Work+. Simon Archer and Joshua Mandryk take us through the platform’s portable benefits program.

The Law Society of Ontario is seeking input on whether articling students should get a minimum wage. Ella Bedard and Louis Century tell you why they should. Make your voice heard by March 15, 2022.

The biggest mistake an executive can make when resigning is to leave money on the table. Many believe that if they are choosing to leave their role, they will have to walk away with nothing. But as Natai Shelsen writes, it doesn’t have to be this way! Executives can often negotiate mutual separation agreements before leaving.

Lawyers at Goldblatt Partners successfully argued that the conversion of a pension plan should be frozen until the OLRB determines whether the employer’s unilateral actions breached the Labour Relations Act, 1995. As both sides were involved in a decades-long bargaining relationship, the Board intervened because the employer’s unilateral actions could cause serious harm to the union’s status as exclusive bargaining agent.

Adriel Weaver shares her experience and insights on interventions in constitutional litigation on Episode 5 of the Asper Centre’s podcast, Charter: A Course.

Karen Chen of our construction labour law team explains common unfair tactics used by employers in the construction industry and tells us about three big remedial certification wins in unfair labour practice complaints.