Executive compensation and governance, workforce rewards, pay equity, I&D – Fall 2023

Executive compensation and governance:

• Say-on-pay vote results
• Employee ownership trusts, other ITA and ITR amendments
• Corporate law developments
• Securities developments
• Bonus and DPSP taxation changes in Québec

Work, rewards and careers:

• Pay equity and pay transparency developments
• Minimum wage and public holiday developments
• Use of French by federally regulated private businesses
• Employment standards developments
• Competition developments
• Accessibility developments
• International credentialing
• Four-day workweek trial

Inclusion and diversity:

• Women on boards of directors and in executive officer positions
• Wage gaps: Gender and disability
• Retaining older workers
• Continuing workforce impacts of COVID-19
• Federal initiatives
• Provincial initiatives

Case law:

• Pay equity developments
• Employment standards considerations
• Constructive dismissal, condonation and factors affecting reasonable notice
• Class action developments
• Special damages and costs considerations
• Options and restricted stock units
• Restrictive covenants
• Corporate powers