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Personal emergency leave provisions took precedence over deemed termination clause

March 27, 2013 Christina Catenacci Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, Human Resources, Union Relations, 0

An employee left work early for an emergency dental appointment without notifying her employer. Should the employee be terminated immediately?

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May 10, 2012 Yosie Saint-Cyr Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, Human Resources, Union Relations

Send to Kindle Beware of terminating long-term employees without proper notice The Ontario Superior Court of Justice decided that an employer terminated a 65-year-old long-term employee without the proper amount of notice or severance. As a result, the employer had to pay hefty damages, interest and costs awards. Entitlement to paid sick leave and termination [...]

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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.

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Strengthen personal data security; avoid the Sony experience

May 4, 2011 Yosie Saint-Cyr Human Resources, Privacy and Security

Customers and employees entrust their personal information to businesses on a daily basis and expect that these businesses will treat that information with the care and respect it deserves by implementing the proper safeguards to keep it safe. However, just recently…