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Making your employee handbook enforceable

March 26, 2012 Andrew Taillon Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, Human Resources

A regular issue for employers is whether the provisions in their employee handbook are enforceable in the same manner as an employment contract. Many employers are surprised to find that they are not…

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Is severance pay required when an employee is terminated?

September 29, 2011 Alan McEwen Employment/Labour Standards, Human Resources, Payroll, Wages and Compensation

When I speak at conferences, I am often asked the following question: “Is severance pay required when an employee is terminated?”

Before this question can be answered, we have to first confront the difficulty that some payroll terms traditionally used to describe both termination, as well as any payments resulting from this event, haven’t always been defined with the greatest of clarity. My preference has always been for those terms that convey the clearest meaning of the related employment standards and source deduction requirements.