Employees often lose out when a company declares bankruptcy, ranking well behind other creditors when the company’s remaining assets are shared out.

The Equifax data breach was a teachable moment, but it seems the Office of the Privacy Commissioner may have learned the wrong lesson.

The CBA’s Pensions and Benefits Law Section is generally supportive of proposals from Finance Canada to convert health and welfare trusts to employee life and health trusts, and to amend some existing ELHT rules under the Income Tax Act.

When your wheel has a wobble, the solution is to fix the wheel, not reinvent it.

Canada’s foreign affiliate dumping rules were first introduced in 2012, designed to prevent foreign enterprises from “dumping” foreign affiliates into their Canadian subsidiaries in a way that would erode the Canadian tax base.

Does there have to be a formal complaint to trigger an investigation of workplace violence or harassment?

Draft regulations establishing time limits for matters before the Copyright Board fall somewhat short of the stated goal of ensuring predictability

If the federal government wants to provide “no-cost, expedited record suspensions for simple possession of cannabis,” as it says it does, then that’s what it should do, by making the process automatic, says the CBA’s Criminal Justice Section.

The CBA’s Intellectual Property Section has some suggestions for the changes proposed to the Manual of Patent Office Practice to reflect the new patent rules expected this fall.

The federal government announced in its 2019 budget that it plans to change the rules governing employee stock option deductions by limiting the tax-preferred treatment to a maximum $200,000 annual cap for employees of large, long-established firms, while stock options for employees of start-ups and rapidly growing businesses would remain uncapped for tax purposes.