The Covid19 pandemic is creating significant challenges in the workplace and those challenges will only increase as governments impose stricter and stricter restrictions on the movement of individuals in our society. This has significant impact on businesses and employees whether it is through ill or quarantined workers, closure of businesses due to government order or ...
On the heels of the recent declaration of a pandemic by the World Health Organization, the Trudeau government has announced a package of $1 billion to help in the Coronavirus fight. This funding will be in effort to reduce the economic impact of the virus. Learn more about this new development and other helpful information in ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has now declared the Coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. This does not mean that the characteristics of the disease have changed at all, it simply means there are concerns with its geographic spread. According to the WHO a pandemic is declared when a new disease for which people do not have ...
The COVID-19 epidemic challenges companies to carefully review strategies, policies and procedures they have in place to protect employees, customers and operations. Management of the workplace in the face of the epidemic engages a variety of legal considerations that have significant implications for both employers and employees. Rose Keith, QC, a member of our leading ...
Many employers arrange employment relationships under a “fixed term” contract. Fixed term contracts run for a set period of time and specify the date on which the employment ends. These types of contracts can be beneficial as they provide greater certainty that an employee will fulfill the full term of the engagement. They are often ...
Employers may be surprised to learn that not only do they have to manage actions of employees in the workplace, they also have to manage their actions outside of the workplace when it comes to sex between co-workers, particularly in situations where there is a power imbalance. Employers have a duty to provide workers with ...
McDonald’s has fired its CEO for having a relationship with an employee. Easterbrook is widely considered to be one of the best CEO’s in the restaurant industry. He has brought about significant changes to McDonald’s since taking the role and was objectively doing a great job. So how did the board of McDonald’s come to ...
Many compensation plans include entitlement to some form of variable pay or bonus, and typically with respect to a bonus the employer will take the position that it is discretionary, that is that they get to decide who gets the bonus, when they get it and how much they get. Some bonus plans are structured ...
A recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision provided clear direction to employers on what NOT to do when terminating employees. The Court of Appeal in Ruston v. Keddco Mfg. (2011) Ltd., 2019 ONCA 125 affirmed the trial decision. At trial the Court awarded $100,000 in punitive damages against the employer for the manner of termination ...
