The Cost Of Terminating an Employee Who Has Recently Returned to Work Following a Pregnancy Leave Pregnant employees have special rights under the Employment Standards Act and the Human Rights Code. And most judges are sympathetic to the problems that women face when...
How to Prevent A Poisoned Work Environment: Navigating the Grey Zone With the upsurge of technology, there is more opportunity for our interactions to be broadcast and misinterpreted. Many employees have cell phones and some employers and employees communicate via...
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...
Angelina Jolie and Transgender Rights Recently, it was reported that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s child who was assigned female gender at birth has been wearing traditionally male attire and has requested to be called John (see here). While John may face societal...
Top 10 Employment Law Stories of 2014 The end of the year is nigh… And Ontario looks a little bit different…at least, from an employment law perspective. More and more, Canadians are taking legal matters into their own hands and 2014 gave employees the power to do so...
Tweeting your way to termination: Twitter privacy settings can’t protect you from the law Since the beginning of time, employees have privately complained about work and made inappropriate comments to friends and family. Today, however, this venting is happening...
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 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...