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Buck stops with Director: Director jailed 90 days for repeatedly failing to pay wages
November 19, 2012
Author: Alex Heaslip A recent court ruling sends a clear message to directors: violate the Employment Standards Act, 2000 obligations and you may be sent to prison. Between March, 2007 and October, 2009, 61 employees from six companies operated by...
Truth or Dare? When Employees Quit … or Maybe Don’t!
November 7, 2012
Author: Clifford Hart Likely every unionized employer reading this has faced the situation where an employee, in some way or another, “quits” and then some time after claims s/he didn’t mean it. It is fair to say that many employers...
Facebook Taunts Reprehensible, But Are They Just Cause For Dismissal?
October 19, 2012
Man in London, Ont. fired after posting derogatory comments on tribute pagefor bullied British Columbia teen who committed suicide Author: Stuart Rudner We have spent the last few days reading about the horrific tragedy that resulted in Amanda Todd, a...
Safety Misconduct and Just Cause
October 16, 2012
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The case of Barton v. Rona Ontario Inc.1 raises the issue of dismissal for cause based upon employee misconduct relating to a serious safety violation. In this case, the plaintiff was an assistant store manager who had worked for the employer...
Let There Be Wheat: Labour Standards for Farm Employees
October 10, 2012
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“The Lord said ‘let there be wheat’ and Saskatchewan was born” – Stephen Leacock Saskatchewan has long been synonymous with farming. The 2011 census suggests that while there are currently fewer farms in this province than in years past, they...
Focusing on the Next Generation: Age Discrimination?
October 1, 2012
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Discrimination in the workplace is unfortunately more common than one might expect and may be based on the age of a senior employee and the desire to promote younger employees. Can one clearly label the attitude of certain managers towards...
QUÉBEC COURT OF APPEAL: No duty to disclose unfounded allegations of dishonest conduct to potential employer
September 24, 2012
Author: Marie-Pier Côté In a very interesting and unanimous decision[1], the Québec Court of Appeal has recently ruled that an employee faced with unfounded allegations of embezzlement does not have to disclose such accusations to a potential employer during the...
Scents and Sensitivities
September 18, 2012
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Employers often face a variety of complaints from employees about health concerns due to individual conditions. One Ontario employer recently faced a Human Rights complaint for its failure to eliminate all scents from the workplace in the case of Kovios...
Are Equity Partners Employees? Mandatory Retirement in Law Firms
September 6, 2012
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For some time now, it has been a settled principle of human rights law that employers cannot force employees to retire unless the age of an employee amounts to a bona fide occupational requirement. While mandatory retirement used to be...
Express/Written Restrictive Covenants For Key Employees More Important Than Ever
September 4, 2012
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A recent Supreme Court of Canada decision has considered the question of who is a “fiduciary”, making it an important one from the perspective of employment law. In Alberta v. Elder Advocates of Alberta Society 2011 SCC 24 (“Elder Advocates”),...
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