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Requiring a Person with a Service Animal to Wait at a Mall Entrance for Four Minutes Costs Mall Owner $ 1000

by Doug MacLeod | Oct 22, 2015 | For Employers

Requiring a Person with a Service Animal to Wait at a Mall Entrance for Four Minutes Costs Mall Owner $ 1000 Requiring a Person with a Service Animal to Wait at a Mall Entrance for Four Minutes Costs Mall Owner $ 1000 A Vice-Chair of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal...

More obligations under AODA Take Effect on January 1, 2016: Is your Organization Compliant Yet?

by Doug MacLeod | Sep 22, 2015 | For Employers

More obligations under AODA Take Effect on January 1, 2016: Is your Organization Compliant Yet? More changes under AODA Take Effect on January 1, 2016: Is your Organization Compliant Yet? By January 1, 2016 – about 3 months from now – Ontario employers with 50 or more...

Employee Terminations: How Employment Contracts and Legal Consultation Prevent Legal Fires

by Doug MacLeod | May 18, 2015 | For Employers

Employee Terminations: How Employment Contracts and Legal Consultation Prevent Legal Fires I strongly recommend that employers require all new employees to sign an employment contract with a termination clause. As a result, the employer knows how much it will cost to...

Making the Workplace an Accessible Place: One Obligation At a Time

by Doug MacLeod | Feb 24, 2015 | For Employers

Making the Workplace an Accessible Place: One Obligation At a Time The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act, 2005, (the “AODA”), is a statute aimed at developing, implementing and enforcing standards that promote accessibility for people with disabilities...

Contractors and the Duty to Accommodate

by Doug MacLeod | Jan 16, 2015 | For Employers

Contractors and the Duty to Accommodate Does an Employer have a Duty to Accommodate a Disabled Independent Contractor or a Disabled Dependent Contractor? I recently fielded an interesting question. A human resources consultant was reviewing an employee manual for a...

Human Rights Update: Owner of hunting lodge ordered to pay seasonal employee who had a workplace injury almost 3 years pay

by Doug MacLeod | Nov 18, 2014 | For Employers

Human Rights Update: Owner of hunting lodge ordered to pay seasonal employee who had a workplace injury almost 3 years pay The Facts Tammy Pelletier worked as a housekeeper at a hunting lodge for six months each year. She was a seasonal employee and earned $ 13 per...

Preventing Legal Fires: Employment Contracts, No Discrimination Policies and Disability Management Programs

by Doug MacLeod | Nov 11, 2014 | For Employers

Preventing Legal Fires: Employment Contracts, No Discrimination Policies and Disability Management Programs I have been providing employment law advice to employers for over 25 years. I provide preventive advice and I put out legal fires. When I provide the former...

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