Description
Sean Bawden is an Ottawa, Ontario based employment lawyer practicing throughout eastern and southern Ontario with the law firm Kelly Santini LLP.
Tell your friends
RECENT FACEBOOK POSTS
facebook.comLabour Pains: Who’s the Boss? Determining One’s Employer at Ontario Law
It's been a while since I made a pop culture reference. Time for an old one,Who’s the Boss? Determining One’s Employer at Ontario Law
Ontario Protects Employees' Tips and Gratuities
Starting today, it is illegal in Ontario for employers to take employees' tips and other gratuities.
Why so many young lawyers dislike their jobs
"Eight years after graduation, most of my law school friends have quit law firm life: they have moved in-house or they are doing something tangentially related to law or they have quit the legal profession altogether."
How to be a great lawyer and still make it home for dinner
If you’re so keen to complete your to-do list, why not just add be home for family dinner to the list?
John Oliver makes 'TV history' by forgiving $15 million in medical debt
"It seems to me the least we can do for debt I cannot f---ing believe we're allowed to own is to give it away," Oliver said to close his show. "F--- you, Oprah. I am the new queen of daytime talk!"
Toronto judge halts charges against man until government pays for lawyer | Toronto Star
The threshold for Legal Aid in Ontario is about $12,000. Now a Superior Court judge has said that that is unreasonably low and the province must do something about it.
TTC worker fired over open subway doors, union head says | Toronto Star
"Doors Open Toronto" TTC Operator fired... But whose fault was it?
McDonald's drive-thru rules disallow blind late-night diners, lawsuit says
Is McDonald's "drive-thru only" policy discriminatory against those without cars and those who cannot drive? Scott Magee, a blind Louisiana man, is suing the burger chain, saying its refusal to accommodate nondrivers is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The 35-year-old filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday in Chicago's federal court, alleging that Oak-Brook based McDonald's has no "concern whatsoever for the accessibility of the late-night drive-thrus to the disabled."
Ontario midwives allege gender-based pay gap, compared to doctors | Toronto Star
Alleging gender discrimination for the past two decades, Ontario’s 800 midwives are taking the provincial government to the Human Rights Tribunal this week over what they say is a significant pay gap compared to doctors.
Labour Pains: HRTO Declines to Punish Employer who Breached Terms of Settlement
Make a deal then breach the contract? No problem says HRTO.
Top 3 Toronto firefighting graduates are all women, for the 1st time ever
For the first time on record, the Toronto Fire Services' top three graduates are women, and the service says more and more women are not only becoming firefighters but rising to the top of the profession.
Watson: What do 'women’s jobs' actually pay?
In a new working paper, two University of Toronto economists argue, rather courageously in the current climate in universities, that some occupational segregation of men and women may reflect choices based on gender advantages in the activities involved. They also find, counter-intuitively, that reducing existing job segregation might actually increase the male/female wage gap.
Quiz
