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By Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor | < 1 Minutes Read April 16, 2020

Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk

The three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with the federal COVID-19 aid package, payroll related measures for COVID-19 and what life might be like after COVID-19.

Article by Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Health and Safety, Payroll, Privacy / Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, COVID-19, employment law, environmental sustainability, HR policy, technology in the workplace, wage subsidy, working from home

By Michele Glassford | 3 Minutes Read July 4, 2016

Loose lips sink shifts?

Human Resources PolicyProA recent online article reported that two seventeen-year-old employees were fired from a Kansas City pizza joint for talking about their pay rates. Both were new employees with the same experience, and the female employee discovered she was earning $0.25/hour less than her male co-worker. When she contacted her employer for an explanation, she was fired for discussing wages with a co-worker, as was the male co-worker. The employer advised that discussing pay was against employer policy, even though both employees stated that such policy was never disclosed to them.

Article by Michele Glassford / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Human Rights, Payroll, Privacy, Union Relations / discrimination, discrimination in pay policies, discussing pay, discussing wages, employees’ rights to communicate, employer policies, employer policy, employment law, fair pay policies, female employee earning less, Gender wage gaps, gender-based pay gaps, HR policy, human rights legislation, pay policies, pay rates, paying women less than men, personal information about employees, PIPEDA, privacy policy, privacy statutes

By Devry Smith Frank LLP | 3 Minutes Read June 25, 2014

Another failure to implement random alcohol and drug testing policy in the workplace

Suncor Energy Inc. has recently attempted to implement a mandatory, random drug and alcohol testing policy among employees in “safety-sensitive” or “specified” positions at their oil sands work site Fort McMurray, Alberta. These positions are held by about 82 percent of the 3,383 union members employed at the site.

Article by Devry Smith Frank LLP / Employee Relations, Human Rights, Payroll, Privacy, Union Relations / alcohol and drug use in the workplace, breathalyzer testing, communications, employees’ rights to privacy, employment law, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, filing a grievance, HR policy, Local 30 v. Irving Pulp & Paper, near-miss history, policies and procedures, random alcohol and drug testing policy in the workplace, random alcohol testing, random testing policy, reathalyzer and urine tests are considered very invasive, safety-sensitive position, serious invasion of employees’ privacy, unionized employees, urine tests

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