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Can employers mandate the COVID-19 vaccine in the workplace?

Employers are asking whether they can insist that employees get the COVID-19 vaccine before returning to the workplace. Unfortunately, you will have conflicting responses to the question from legal experts.

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5 practical principles for policy & procedure management

Many failures in business today could be addressed or even prevented with better policy management. Data breaches, workplace accidents, employee misconduct, third-party incidents, customer complaints, and more are often traced to policies that were absent, ineffective, or out of sight, out of mind.

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What is a right to request under employment standards?

With the new Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017 coming into force, new provisions have been put into place. One such provision is the right to request a change to work schedule or location. What are an employer's obligations under this provision?

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