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By Occasional Contributors | 6 Minutes Read January 31, 2020

Mental health at work: An employer’s duty to inquire

In cases where an employer suspects that an employee suffers from a mental illness that may be affecting their performance at work, the employer has a duty to inquire.

Article by Occasional Contributors / Employee Relations, Health and Safety / accommodation policies, discipline, duty to inquire, medical information, Mental illness, mental illness accommodation

By Jeff Dutton, Dutton Employment Law | 3 Minutes Read January 31, 2020

The effect of signing a severance package

Question: Can employees get out of signed severance packages?

Article by Jeff Dutton, Dutton Employment Law / Payroll / employment law, severance package, unconscionable agreement, wrongful dismissal claim

By McCarthy Tétrault LLP | 11 Minutes Read January 31, 2020

Free speech on campus is subject to the Charter — but only in Alberta

On August 2018, Ontario’s Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities announced that it would “require every publicly-assisted college and university to develop and publicly post its own free speech policy by January 1, 2019 that meets a minimum standard specified by the government”. In December 2019, Alberta’s government followed suit.

Article by McCarthy Tétrault LLP / Business, Privacy / Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Freedom of expression, UAlberta Pro-Life

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