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.
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”.
Disparaging the company and management on social media can cost employees their job
Require employees to show up on time and notify their supervisors when absent
Terminating an employee for nonculpable absenteeism
The BEFORE wrong policy and AFTER corrected version
Testing is only the second best way to learn employees have problems with drugs and alcohol.
Does your HR policy incorporate the new Sask. interpersonal violence leave requirements?
Does your HR policy incorporate the new domestic violence leave requirements that took effect on Sept. 1, 2018?
Cannabis legalization made revision of workplace drug policies a top priority.
Seasonal employees may qualify for stat holiday pay, unpaid leave and termination notice.
Drug testing, termination notice, nationality and family status discrimination were among the year’s key battlegrounds
Equal pay rights of women, part-timers, temps, seasonal and casual employees
While performance reviews get plenty of ink, their legal ramifications are frequently overlooked