When You Don’t Have to Pay Termination Notice
Employment standards laws require prompt payment of wages and amounts due to terminated employees
Global Talent Trends Snapshot And What it Means for Canada
The 5 options you have to address future employee shortages.
Managers face Criminal Convictions for Workplace Injury or Deaths
Individuals in positions of authority with their employer can be convicted criminally where their negligence is the course of their employees resulting in bodily injury or death.
How to Word Your Progressive Discipline Policy
A disciplinary program ranges from a number of stages including verbal warnings to a final warning. Some instances may result in further disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.
Automobile Use By Employees
Businesses often require employees to use automobiles to perform their employment duties. Most often, a business will provide an automobile to the employee or will pay the employee for use of the employee's own vehicle. These options present different income tax consequences for the employer and the employee.
Internet Of Things And Cybersecurity
Organizations should determine their strategy in relation to Internet security at a corporate level. Businesses need to ask themselves some essential questions.
The New Actuarial Study
Highlights of a new actuarial study analysing CPP mortality, disability and retirement rates over the past two decades
Newfoundland Human Rights Commission
The Newfoundland Human Rights Commission issued new compliance guidelines for employers covering
How to Define Service Animals in New Legislation
Exactly what kind of training and characteristics should be required for an animal to qualify as a service animal?
Minimum Wage Employee Must Be Paid for After-Shift Work
A campground convenience store clerk claimed that the employer refused to pay her for the additional 11 to 43 minutes she had to work to complete that task.
Minimum Wage Changing Oct. 1
Table showing minimum wage taking effect on Oct 1
Reassignment to Position with Less Responsibility = Constructive Dismissal
After more than 25 years of working as a dock
Total Workers' Compensation Claims Increased 3% in 2014
Total workers’ comp claims increased 3% in 2014 to 1,841, as compared to 1,788 in 2013. Other key 2014 work injury statistics from the new WCB 2014 Annual Report.
Plant’s Posting of Employee Photos at Workstations ≠ Privacy Violation
Employees concerned that having their pictures posted would identify them as being responsible for weak performance of a workstation that may actually have been caused by poor machinery.