Legal briefs

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This is a notice that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice will hold a hearing to decide whether to approve Minutes of Settlement signed by the Crown, CUPE and the Representative Plaintiff in a class action about the transfer of certain CUPE members’ pensions from OMERS to HOOPP. You should read this notice as it may affect your rights if: You are an employee (or former employee) of a municipal service provider, whose employment was transferred to a Community Care Access Centre (CACC); Your pension transferred from OMERS to HOOPP; and You were a member of a CUPE bargaining unit at the time of the transfer, or you became a member of CUPE after the transfer.

As many CUPE activists know, privacy rights continue to be an important issue in our workplaces. CUPE is actively defending our members’ privacy rights at work, and we recently won an important arbitration decision.

Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice sentenced Vadim Kazenelson to three and a half years in jail for his criminal negligence that led to the death of four workers, and terrible injuries to another. Read this brief by our Legal Branch to review the details and understand what the judge had to consider in sentencing.