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Canada Introduces Bill to Ban Piracy Settlement Notices

Canada Introduces Bill to Ban Piracy Settlement Notices

Following an update of Canada’s copyright law in 2015, ISPs are required to forward copyright infringement notices to their customers.

As a result of this “notice and notice scheme,” millions of Internet subscribers have received warnings in their mailboxes, with some asking for cash settlements.

The so-called notice-and-notice system is aimed at reducing local piracy rates. While that may have…

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Bill C-86: Federal Government Proposes Significant Changes to Minimum Labour Standards of Canada Labour Code | Lexology

Through Bill C-86, introduced in First Reading on October 29, 2018, the federal government is proposing to amend a number of provisions of Part III of…

Bill C-86 seeks to change Canada’s labour code in some major ways. These would mainly affect the minimum standards required of employers towards their employees.

Ideas included in the bill were taken from consultations with multiple different sources including trade unions, employers, university professors and other experts in related fields. The changes will affect: work hours, breaks, equal treatment of all employees, annual vacations, general holidays, temporary help agencies, individual and group terminations, medical leave and family violence leave.

It has already gone through both first and second readings and has now been sent to the Standing Committee on Finance for further analysis.