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By Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation | 4 Minutes Read December 6, 2019

Flexibility does not create new terms of employment

Earlier this year, the Ontario Divisional Court upheld a decision which confirmed that an employer’s occasional flexibility with regard to an employee’s hours of work did not displace the employer’s right to enforce the agreed upon hours at a later time.

Article by Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Human Rights / Attendance policy, duty to accommodate, duty to accommodate family status, employment law, family status, flexible work arrangements, flexible work hours, hours of work

By Ava Z Moradi, JD | 3 Minutes Read September 13, 2018

Q&A: 48-hour advance notification of cancelled shift coming into force on January 1, 2019

Establishing a process for the practical aspects of shift cancellation notifications in a company policy would go a long way to protect employers from paying a worker who claims that he or she did not know about the cancelled shift because he or she failed to check the method of communication for notifications.

Article by Ava Z Moradi, JD / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Payroll / Attendance policy, Bill 148 the Fair Workplaces Better Jobs Act 2017, cancelled shift, cancelled shift. employment law, employment law, hours of work policy, notice of cancellation, shift cancellation notification

By Ian J Cook | 3 Minutes Read September 8, 2011

Absenteeism is on the rise

We have just reported our Q2 2011 results. We have gone through the time consuming and detailed process of auditing and are now in the process of letting folks know what happened in Q2 2011 on a range of metrics. One measure that we have been keeping a close eye on is absenteeism. Absenteeism keeps going up and the Q2 results are continuing that trend.

Article by Ian J Cook / Employee Relations, Health and Safety / Absenteeism, absenteeism rate, aging workforce, Analytics, Attendance management programs, Attendance policy, costs of absenteeism, Disability management programs, duty to accommodate, employment opportunities, HR metrics, labour market opportunity, people costs, productivity, Time and attendance, unemployment, voluntary turnover

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