Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
This year, Canada Day (July 1) falls on a Thursday. Unlike some public holidays, which shift dates in order to provide a long weekend, Canada Day is to be celebrated on the day it falls. This year, there has been much discussion of the fact that it creates a situation in which many people have Thursday off, and are then expected to return to work for one day before enjoying their weekend.
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On June 25, 2010, Citizenship and Immigration Canada published Ministerial Instructions and proposed regulations that significantly alter the Federal Skilled Worker Program, Federal Immigrant Investor Program and Canadian Experience Class. An overview of the resulting changes, which became effective on June 26, 2010, is provided herein.
Read the rest of this post »Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Earlier this year, we reported that Alberta and Quebec were preparing constitutional “references” to be heard by their respective provincial Courts of Appeal to defend their rights to maintain their own provincial securities regulators. At the same time, the federal government announced its intention to take its case for a national regulator to the Supreme Court…
Read the rest of this post »Monday, June 28th, 2010
It’s a pleasure to welcome Henry J. Chang as a guest blogger. He will be blogging about immigration law…
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Now that the big do is over, and the security fences are coming down in Toronto and Huntsville—hopefully—let’s take a moment to reflect on how all the hubbub of the G8/G20 summits affected local businesses.
Read the rest of this post »Friday, June 25th, 2010
As the competition for jobs increases during these tough economic times, many job applicants are tempted to bend the truth by embellishing or omitting information on their résumés. That is why it is important to fact-check résumés…
Read the rest of this post »Thursday, June 24th, 2010
The answer to the first question is easy: NFC is short for Near Field Communication, a simple, very short-range wireless communication technology (similar to RFID), which can be used for a “contactless” payment between an NFC-enabled device and an NFC reader at a retail checkout or a public transit turnstile, for example. NFC is a very hot technology right now, and is becoming widely used for low-value payments, such as transit fares, in some parts of the world like Japan and Korea.
Read the rest of this post »Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
A weekend Toronto Star article reported that employees at the Canada Revenue Agency are improperly reviewing the private financial affairs of taxpayers. Some are using agency computers to give favoured treatment to colleagues, friends, family—and themselves…
Read the rest of this post »Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
You have a legal obligation to understand how the race, religion and sexual orientation of your employees can impact their safety at work. Understanding these factors will empower you to take steps to protect your workers from harassment and violence as required by the recent amendments to Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act (Bill 168).
Read the rest of this post »Monday, June 21st, 2010
So it’s practically summer and I can’t help thinking of the days off I’ll be taking here and there, the chunk of vacation time I still have left and the various long weekends remaining. (But I don’t let my daydreams affect my work!) I might not have a lot of vacation days left, but I’m sure going to use them.
Read the rest of this post »Friday, June 18th, 2010
Are your employees suffering from the “World Cup Flu”? Are you finding that there is an unusually high rate of absenteeism in your office these days?
Read the rest of this post »Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Remember the ECPA, the proposed Electronic Commerce and Protection Act? It’s back, but with a gnarly new name: the Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act.
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On May 29, the federal government introduced Bill C-29, the Safeguarding Canadians’ Personal Information Act, which makes substantial changes to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). The Bill had been in development for several years, and one of its primary objectives was to address a significant gap in PIPEDA, the issue of mandatory disclosure of “material” breaches of personal information by the companies or organizations responsible.
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For those of you haven’t been following the contentious reform of the existing and antiquated Copyright Act, this is the fed’s third crack at it. The Liberals tabled Bill C-60 in 2005, which was criticized for favouring the interests of copyright holders over consumers and died when Parliament was dissolved that year. The Conservatives tried again with Bill C-61 in 2008. It faced the same complaints, and disappeared when the government prorogued.
Read the rest of this post »Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
The question of whether an employer should give reasons at the time of dismissal is an important one in employment law…
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