Employment Lawyer Nicole Simes | MacLeod Law Firm

Employment Contract Review: Why It Is Essential

MacLeod Law Firm — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 19:46:17 +0000

You have been offered an exciting new job opportunity and your future employer has asked you to sign an employment contract. Why should you hire a lawyer to do an employment contract review? The language used in most employment contracts takes away your legal rights. A lawyer can explain which rights you are giving up in an employment contract and can suggest changes to the contract that benefit…

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Genetic Information and Discrimination

Nicole Simes — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:44:41 +0000

On June 9, 2015, Peter MacKay, the then Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announced legislative changes aimed at protecting Canadians from discrimination on the basis of genetic information. What Rights are currently protected? Currently, the human rights of employees who work in Ontario for a provincially regulated company are protected by the Ontario Human Rights Code (“Code”).

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Do employers need to accommodate employees who smoke?

Nicole Simes — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:34:05 +0000

In a blog last year, we addressed the issue of whether smoking was a disability and the relationship between smoking and employee human rights. To date, we have not yet seen a human rights decision specifically address smoking as a disability. However, a recent arbitration decision under the Ontario Labour Relations Act considers the rights of employees who are smokers. In…

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