The 2022 Ontario HR Compliance Yearbook – Special Report
What makes 2022 so different from other HR compliance years is where the action took place. In a typical year, the big changes tend to be spread out among the […]
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Quiet Quitting Special Report
Fundamentally, quiet quitting is a social phenomenon rooted in generational attitudes, burnout, family responsibilities and, above all, employee mistrust of employers to manage their workload and provide fair compensation. To […]
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Quiet Quitting
Date: September 21 Time: 9:00AM Speakers: Veronica Rossos & Geoff Mason, Miller Thomson Please join us in this presentation by Veronica Rossos and Geoff Mason, in which they will discuss the emerging concept of “quiet quitting” […]
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Negative Performance Reviews Are Just a Pretext When You’ve Already Decided on Termination – Ask The Expert
Provide performance reviews consistently and give employees a fair chance to improve. QUESTION We’re finally ready to terminate an employee who’s been underperforming for years. The problem is that she’s never had […]
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Raising Health And Safety Concern Real Motivation For Terminating Worker For “Poor Fit” During Probationary Period
A recent decision[1] by the British Columbia Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal (“WCAT”) upheld a Workers’ Compensation Board (the “Board”) decision that determined an employer’s termination of a worker during her probationary period for […]
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Probationary Teacher Wasn’t Fired for Reporting Classroom Violence
A high school teaching assistant assigned to work with special need students with autism was fired just 2 months into the job. The school claimed she didn’t follow the student’s […]
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Managing Challenging Employees During the Pandemic
Date: December 2, 2020 Duration 60 Minutes Presenter: Alanna Twohey, Research Layer at Emond Harnden Download Slides Below About the Webinar The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is now well underway, and employers are […]
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How to Create a Performance Improvement Plan
Using performance reviews to help employees improve—or lawfully fire them if they don’t. HR Law, 101: Poor performance is generally just cause for termination, provided that you give employees ample feedback, […]
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5 Performance Review Legal Traps to Avoid
How performance reviews can affect your wrongful dismissal liability risks. Performance reviews don’t simply provide employees the feedback they need to do their job better; they protect your organization from liability […]
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Performance Improvement Plan
Giving poorly performing the best chance to improve saves jobs and cuts liability risks. Poor performance is generally just cause for termination, provided that you give employees ample feedback, warning and […]
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