If you're an Uber driver and want to fight your employer, you'd have to go to the Netherlands to do it. Employment Lawyer Lior Samfiru joined The Morning Show on Global News Radio 640 Toronto to discuss this dangerous loophole found in Ontario's labour laws and how Uber took advantage of it.

Read here about Samfiru Tumarkin LLP's concerns for employees and workplace rights in Ontario.

Read the Ministry of Labour's response in Sara Mojtehedzadeh's article in The Toronto Star.

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Uber drivers who want to fight their employer in court will have to go to the Netherlands to do it, an Ontario judge has ruled. Employment Lawyer Lior Samfiru told Newstalk 580 CFRA's Rob Snow why this result essentially means that "you can take our employment laws and essentially throw them in the garbage. Rights are of no value if they cannot be enforced.”

Read here about Samfiru Tumarkin LLP's concerns for employees and workplace rights in Ontario.

Read the Ministry of Labour's response in Sara Mojtehedzadeh's article in The Toronto Star.

Employment Issues?

Before you call a lawyer, use the Pocket Employment Lawyer to calculate your potential severance package and find out if you might have a case.

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A cyclist in effect fired from her job after giving Donald Trump the middle finger is suing her former employer.

Juli Briskman filed a lawsuit in a Virginia court on Wednesday arguing that the government contractor Akima violated the state’s employment law when it forced her to quit.

"I never imagined that my 'one-finger salute' to the presidential motorcade and its occupant would cost me my job," said Juli Briskman, who called her firing "un-American."

Employment Lawyer Lior Samfiru, Partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, joined The Morning Show on Global News Radio 640 Toronto to explain what the employer's rights were in this situation, and the chances of her successfully arguing her case.

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Before you call a lawyer, use the Pocket Employment Lawyer to calculate your potential severance package and find out if you might have a case.

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A waiter in Vancouver who was fired for being aggressive with his colleagues says he's not rude — he's just French.

Guillaume Rey has filed a complaint at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against Milestones Restaurant and its parent company, Cara Operations, where he worked as a waiter from October 2015 to August 2016.

Cara and Milestones applied to dismiss the complaint, but tribunal member Devyn Cousineau denied their application earlier this month, paving the way for the complaint to be heard.

In her decision, Cousineau said the restaurant maintains that Rey was terminated for his "aggressive tone and nature" with colleagues, which violates its code of conduct.

But Rey says his co-workers misinterpreted his "direct, honest and professional" French personality.

Employment Lawyer Lior Samfiru, Partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, joined The Morning Show on Global News Radio 640 Toronto to discuss the likelihood of Rey actually winning his human rights case, and whether or not he actually has a wrongful dismissal case on his hands.

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