Maternity & Parental Leave: The 10 Things to Include in Your Leave Policy
Do your maternity and parental leave policies account for the recent legal changes?
New Federal Rules for Recovering Overpayments
Making life easier for employees overpaid as a result of payroll errors.
The 10 Things OHS Laws Require You to Do to Prevent Workplace Violence GalleryThe 10 Things OHS Laws Require You to Do to Prevent Workplace Violence
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The 10 Things OHS Laws Require You to Do to Prevent Workplace Violence
Are you doing enough to protect your employees from violence at work?
Smoke & Vape Free Workplace Policy
Workplace smoke bans aren't just a health imperative but a legal one
- Workplace Smoking & Vaping: Smoke-Free Workplace Laws & the 5 Things You Must Do to Comply Gallery
Workplace Smoking & Vaping: Smoke-Free Workplace Laws & the 5 Things You Must Do to Comply
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Workplace Smoking & Vaping: Smoke-Free Workplace Laws & the 5 Things You Must Do to Comply
Banning workplace smoking isn’t illegal, tolerating it is.
PIER Pressure: How Your T4 CPP Information Can Trigger CRA Review
CPP rather than EI discrepancies are the leading cause of PIER review
- Inter-Personal Conflict: Is Dysfunction between Coworkers Grounds for Constructive Dismissal? Gallery
Inter-Personal Conflict: Is Dysfunction between Coworkers Grounds for Constructive Dismissal?
Anti-Harassment & Bullying, Articles, Conflict & Dispute Resolution, Constructive Dismissal, Insolence/ Insubordination, Termination, Work Refusals, Workers' Compensation, Workplace Violence
Inter-Personal Conflict: Is Dysfunction between Coworkers Grounds for Constructive Dismissal?
Bad blood isn’t enough; there must also be harassment, violence, intimidation or abuse
Combating Winter SADness in the Workplace: Help Employees Fight SAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder
Bio info: Alan Strashok has over 20 years’ experience as a pharmacist and currently practices in Atlantic Canada. Alan has been with Express Scripts Canada for six years.
Reconsideration of the Doctrine of Consideration
It has been famously said that “hard cases make bad law”; sometimes, however, hard cases make new law. Or, at least, they very much encourage the court to do so lest we give credence to Mr. Bumble’s lament in Oliver Twist: “If the law supposes that ... the law is an ass”.
- Firing Employees for the Things They Post on Online Gallery
Firing Employees for the Things They Post on Online
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Firing Employees for the Things They Post on Online
Disparaging the company and management on social media can cost employees their job
Employee Attendance Policy
Require employees to show up on time and notify their supervisors when absent
How Long Is Too Long to Wait for Employees to Return from an Extended Absence?
Terminating an employee for nonculpable absenteeism
Substance Abuse Self-Disclosure Policy GallerySubstance Abuse Self-Disclosure Policy
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Substance Abuse Self-Disclosure Policy
The BEFORE wrong policy and AFTER corrected version
Drugs & Alcohol: Requiring Employees to Disclose their Substance Abuse Problems
Testing is only the second best way to learn employees have problems with drugs and alcohol.