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Termination Pitfalls: Beware of 4 Situations When Fired Employees Need Not Mitigate

The duty to mitigate doesn’t automatically apply where the employment contract sets out a fixed termination notice period or formula for calculating the notice period.

After the Axe Falls: Mitigating Damages: How Far Must Fired Employees Go to Find a New Job?

Wrongful termination lawsuit can saddle your organization with a 5- or even 6-figures worth of termination notice. But you may also be able to slice huge chunks off your bill by relying on an age-old legal doctrine called the mitigation damages rule.

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The Mechanics of Termination: How to Report an Ex-Employee’s Overtime Earnings in the Record of Employment (ROE)

One of the trickiest parts of the Record of Employment is accurately accounting for overtime earnings.

Clean Desk Policy

Like most companies, you may rely on an array of IT solutions to protect the personal information of your customers, clients, employees and business associates against hackers, malware and other cyber threats.

Data Security: The 12 HR Policies You Need to Stop Employee Data Breaches

Don’t let employee mistakes undermine your data security systems.

Managing Absenteeism: 8 Things to Include in Your Attendance Management Program

Attendance management can work if you do it legally

Attendance Management Program Policy

Absenteeism costs Canadian employers over $16.6 billion per year.

Religion in the Workplace: 10 Things to Put in Your Religious Accommodations Policy

Are you doing enough to accommodate employees’ religious beliefs?

New HR Laws: The 10 Changes in the Federal 2017 Budget HR & Payroll Need to Know About

Electronic delivery of T4s is a payroll game changer and the highlight of Budget 2017.

NON-CULPABLE OR INNOCENT ABSENTEEISM: Termination upheld because grievor failed to show he was capable of attending at work regularly in the foreseeable future and accommodation process was exhausted

In the recent arbitration decision of Vancouver Coastal Health Authority v. Hospital Employees’ Union (Termination for Non-Culpable or Innocent Absenteeism), [2016] B.C.C.A.A.A. No. 112, Arbitrator John Sanderson,

Employment Contracts and Termination Clauses

In Canada, employers are permitted to terminate an employment relationship

After the Axe Falls: Should You Intervene in an Employee’s EI Appeal?

Should you care whether your ex-employees get EI benefits?

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