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By Occasional Contributors | 2 Minutes Read March 26, 2019

Bad behaviour and termination

The gut reaction of most employers when they have to deal with an employee who has behaved in an outrageous fashion is to terminate the employee in question without much inquiry into the background of the conduct.

Article by Occasional Contributors / Employee Relations, Health and Safety, Human Rights, Payroll / abusive behaviour, accommodate disability, drugs and alcohol in the workplace, employee termination, employment law, human rights, mental health

By Cristina Lavecchia | < 1 Minutes Read June 15, 2017

Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk

The three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with: Court of Appeal upholds award to constructively dismissed McDonald’s manager; Employer proves it accommodated employee’s disability to the point of undue hardship; and Employer’s LMIA application denied due to lack of “genuineness” of job offer.

Article by Cristina Lavecchia / Employee Relations, Human Rights, Payroll, Union Relations / accommodate disability, constructively dismissed, damages, employment law, Labour Market Impact Assessment, LMIA, termination, workplace accommodation

By Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services | 3 Minutes Read February 27, 2017

Disability and termination under the Human Rights Code

Under the Ontario's Human Rights Code (the Code), an employee cannot be terminated due to a disability. If the Human Rights Tribunal finds that the termination was based in part or in whole on a disability, this may be considered a breach of the Code. The matter was addressed in one of the first Tribunal decisions of 2017, Ben Saad v. 1544982 Ontario Inc.

Article by Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services / Employee Relations, Human Rights, Payroll / accomdation to the point of undue hardship, accommodate disability, Ben Saad v. 1544982 Ontario Inc., damages, Disability, employment law, Foreign workers, hrto, human rights code, Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, Kevin Sambrano, migrant worker, policies and procedures, termination, undue hardhsip

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