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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 »

Employee expense fraud

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Employee fraud is on the rise, as organizations cut back on staff, and their internal controls slacken as a result. However, the monetary loss is just the beginning of the problem. A recent white paper from Grant Thornton LLP notes that, “Failure to crack down on this unethical—and indeed criminal—behaviour blurs the line between right and wrong. It creates a culture of entitlement that can extend across the business. And it can open the door to more significant corporate theft.”

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Tags: corporate theft, employee expenses, employee fraud, employee relations, employee theft, expense controls, FAPP, Finance and Accounting PolicyPro, Grant Thornton, policies and procedures, workplace policies
Posted in Employment Standards, Human Resources, Internal Controls | Make a Comment »

Racism in the news; racism in the workplace

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Anyone who thinks that the days of individual and systemic racism in Canada are behind us should think again. It might not be nice to think about, but across the country, Canadians and visitors to Canada face racism every day.

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Tags: Cheryl Khan, discrimination, diversity, employment, employment discrimination, harassment, human rights, policies, racism, sensitivity training, workplace, workplace harassment, workplace policies
Posted in Human Resources, Human Rights | Make a Comment »

Refusing work if workplace violence is likely to endanger

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

What do you do when an employee tells you she’s refusing to work because she fears she’ll suffer from an act of violence at the workplace? You might ask: can the worker even do that? With workplace violence and harassment legislation and regulation spreading across Canada, you might just need to know.

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Tags: Bill 168, discipline, occupational health and safety, Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act, privacy, right to refuse work, work refusal, workplace harassment, workplace policies, workplace violence
Posted in Health and Safety, Human Resources | 2 Comments »

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