Common Employers In Class Actions

In mid-December, Justice Paul Perell released an interesting decision involving wage claims made by post-doctoral fellows at Sunnybrook Hospital (Pasian v Academic Clinicians' Management Services, 2013 ONSC 7787).

The plaintiff class is comprised of former post-doctoral fellows who worked at Sunnybrook Hospital between 2005 and 2008. The fellows were paid a stipend for their fellowship. The class members alleged that their fellowship stipends were free of all income taxes and deductions. The payment of the stipend and other payroll functions were administered by Academic Clinicians' Management Serviceseffectively a back-office for physicians and physician groups at Sunnybrook. The physicians or physician groupsnot ACMSentered into...