Employment Insurance
December 8, 2016 Cristina Lavecchia Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Source Deductions and Reporting, Union Relations, Wages and Compensation
The three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with: Current and 2017 payroll rates; a case where the Johnstone test is challenged; and an FAQ that addresses Employment Standards Act exemptions, specifically vacation.
2017 payroll rates, basic personal amounts, EI, Employment Insurance, employment law, employment standards act, family status, Family Status Discrimination, Johnstone test, minimum wage rates, pay in lieu of vacation, payroll rates, vacation
December 1, 2016 Cristina Lavecchia Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, Health and Safety, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Source Deductions and Reporting, Union Relations, Wages and Compensation
The three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with: An overview of how to deal with public holidays that fall on the weekends (non-working days); current and 2017 payroll rates; and proposed legislation that would amend the Occupational Health and Safety Act to provide for the establishment of employer “health and safety management systems”.
2017 payroll rates, basic personal amounts, Bill 70, Building Ontario Up for Everyone Act (Budget Measures), EI, Employment Insurance, employment law, health and safety management systems, minimum wage rates, non-working days, occupational health and safety act, payroll rates, public holidays, public holidays on non-working days, statutory holidays, statutory holidays on non-working days
November 24, 2016 Cristina Lavecchia Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Recruiting and Hiring, Source Deductions and Reporting, Union Relations, Wages and Compensation
The three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with: A matter where the court had to determine the enforceability of a promoted employee’s new employment contract, particularly the termination clause; current and 2017 payroll rates; and PRPP legislation that is now in force in Ontario.
2017 payroll rates, EI, employment contract, Employment Insurance, employment law, employment standards act, ESA, minimum wage rates, Ontario PRPP, payroll rates, pension plans, pooled registered pension plans, Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act, PRPP, PRPP Regulations, termination, Termination clause, wrongful dismissal
November 17, 2016 Cristina Lavecchia Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, Health and Safety, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Payroll, Penalties and Fines, Pensions and Benefits, Source Deductions and Reporting, Training and Development, Union Relations, Wages and Compensation
The three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with: How the CHRP designation change is affecting the HR industry across Canada; current and 2017 payroll rates; a case that addresses work related injury or illness and entitlement.
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November 1, 2016 Michele Glassford Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Source Deductions and Reporting, Union Relations, Wages and Compensation
As reported by Yosie Saint-Cyr in the October 24, 2016 edition of HR Infodesk, the federal Employment Insurance Act was amended on June 22, 2016, in part to decrease the waiting period for benefits to commence from two weeks to one week. The new waiting period is to commence on January 1, 2017. The change, in effect, reduces the total benefit entitlement period under EI, although it doesn’t change the maximum benefit period, or weeks of benefits payable.
benefit entitlements, Compassionate Care Leave, critically ill child care leave, EI, EI waiting period, Employment Insurance, Employment Insurance Act, employment law, employment leave, leave entitlements, parental leave, pregnancy leave, SUB Plans, Supplementary Unemployment Benefit Plans
October 27, 2016 Cristina Lavecchia Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, Health and Safety, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Training and Development, Union Relations, Wages and Compensation
The three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with: Vacation entitlement changes in Nova Scotia; reduction in the employment insurance waiting period; and Ontario Ministry of Labour’s updated workplace harassment guide.
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September 22, 2016 Cristina Lavecchia Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, Human Resources, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Recruiting and Hiring, Source Deductions and Reporting, Wages and Compensation
The three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with: anticipated salary increases for 2017; Employment Insurance rate change for 2017; and a case that addresses whether there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in a text message once it has been sent and received by the intended recipient.
EI, Employment Insurance, Employment Insurance Premium Rate, Employment Insurance rate change, employment law, expectation of privacy and text messaging, managing privacy in the workplace, salary increases, salary increases in 2017, use of text messages, workplace privacy
August 19, 2016 Devry Smith Frank LLP Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, Human Resources, Human Rights, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Penalties and Fines
Unfortunately, reasonable accommodation for employees in the workplace continues to be the source of significant litigation and even today we continue to see outrageous examples of employers behaving badly. A prime example of employer misconduct for failing to accommodate and providing reasonable notice is the case of Strudwick v Applied Consumer & Clinical Evaluations Inc. This case highlights a number of important lessons for employers.
deaf employee, Employment Insurance, employment law, hostile work environment, human rights code, human rights violation, infliction of mental distress, punitive damages, reasonable notice, record of employment, Strudwick v Applied Consumer & Clinical Evaluations Inc., termination, workplace accommodation, wrongful dismissal damages
March 29, 2016 Cristina Lavecchia Employee Relations, Government Budgets, Throne Speeches and Plans, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Recruiting and Hiring, Source Deductions and Reporting, Training and Development, Union Relations, Wages and Compensation
On March 22, 2016, the new Liberal Government’s first federal budget, “Growing the Middle Class,” was tabled in the House of Commons. Budget 2016 focuses on growing the economy, creating jobs, and strengthening the middle class. Of interest to employers and payroll professionals…
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October 1, 2015 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor Accessibility Standards, Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Integrated Accessibility Regulation, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Source Deductions and Reporting, Standard for Employment, Standard for Information and Communications, Wages and Compensation
Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with Ontario AODA requirements for 2016; EI premium rates for 2016; and the duty to mitigate.
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, AODA, duty to mitigate, EI premium rates for 2016, Employment Insurance, employment law, HR Law, payroll rates, settlement agreement, termination, terminations
August 14, 2015 Vey Willetts LLP Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Union Relations, Wages and Compensation
On Tuesday, August 4 – the same day that Netflix stock hit a record high, the company announced a decision through its blog to provide paid maternity and paternity leave for its employees, up to one year.
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June 5, 2015 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, Health and Safety, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Source Deductions and Reporting
Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with enhancing compassionate care (EI) benefits; consequences of not reinstating an employee to pre-leave position; and, British Columbia’s significant changes to the Workers Compensation Amendment Act.
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October 28, 2014 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Source Deductions and Reporting, Union Relations, Wages and Compensation
Sections 242 to 248 and 250 of the Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1 (formerly Bill C-31) came into force October 12, 2014. These sections allow employees who are on leave and receiving compassionate care leave (CCB) or parents of critically ill children (PCIC) employment insurance benefits to be able to switch to EI […]
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September 3, 2013 Michele Glassford Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Union Relations
On December 14, 2012, the federal Helping Families in Need Act (formerly Bill C–44) received Royal Assent and provisions were proclaimed in effect on March 24, 2013 and June 9, 2013. That Act among other things, amended the Canada Labour Code to permit an employee to take a job-protected leave of absence without pay if the employee is the parent of a child who has disappeared or died and it is probable, considering the circumstances, that the child disappeared or died as a result of a crime.
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June 13, 2013 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Recruiting and Hiring, Source Deductions and Reporting, Wages and Compensation
The three most viewed articles on HRinfodesk this week deal with Social Insurance Number Regulation, a sixty-year old job applicant that was denied a job interview, and CPP regulation amendments that eliminate work cessation test and SIN cards.
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