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Written agreements in the employment relationship are valuable

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

I have written in this blog and elsewhere, of the value in written employment contracts, written offers of employment, and written employment policies. Much like the break up of a marriage, the parties to the dissolution of the employment relationship often have widely divergent recollections of the understanding of the terms of the relationship when they were entered into. In particular,…

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Tags: constructive dismissal, employment contract, employment contracts, employment law, employment policies, employment relationship, hiring process, negligent misrepresentation, offers of employment, resignation, severance package, written agreements, wrongful dismissal
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Ontario Court of Appeal deals with stock grants and termination

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Long gone are the days when employees would receive pay cheques at the end of the week and possibly a Christmas bonus each year. Compensation for employees, particularly senior employees, has become increasingly complex as employers seek to incent specific behaviours among their executives. In addition, changing tax laws and the wild gyrations of the stock markets have made stock options more difficult to administer and less appealing to employees.

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Tags: Christmas bonus, Compensation for employees, damages for the employer’s failure to purchase the shares, employee stock grant programs, employment law, employment policies, incentives, Ontario Court of Appeal, pay cheques, period of reasonable notice, shares, stock grants, stock options, tax laws, terminated without cause, termination, termination of employment, terminations, valuation date, value of the shares
Posted in Employment Standards, Finance and Accounting, Human Resources, Internal Controls | Make a Comment »

Employee exodus: has Moses led your employees to the promised land?

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

You arrive at the office Monday morning to discover that your Senior Vice-President of Marketing and three of your sales people have resigned and accepted jobs with your competitor. You quickly realize that this has the potential of seriously harming, if not destroying, the company’s business. Do you have any recourse against the departing employees or the company to which they have moved?

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Tags: employee retention, employment contracts, employment policies, non compete, non-competition, non-solicitation, policy, policy manual, restrictive covenant, termination, turnover, workplace policies
Posted in Employment Standards, Human Resources | 1 Comment »

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