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By McCarthy Tétrault LLP | 4 Minutes Read July 2, 2015

Grocery store employee bears cost of refusing to work on Sunday

lRPKgXgAn interesting decision was released in the retail sector which discusses a retail employee’s statutory right to refuse to work on a Sunday under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (“ESA”). At issue was a new company schedule that would have forced an employee to work additional hours on a Sunday. The employee not only argued that he could refuse to work on Sunday (as was his right), but that the employer had to reschedule him for another shift so that he would not suffer any weekly loss of hours and pay. The Ontario Labour Relations Board (“OLRB”) found that the company did not have to reschedule the employee. The OLRB’s decision meant that the employee could not use the right to refuse work as a means to create his preferred shift schedule with no loss of pay.

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Article by McCarthy Tétrault LLP / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Payroll, Union Relations / employee suffered a reprisal under the ESA, employment law, employment standards act, general right to refuse work on Sunday, hours of work, Ontario Labour Relations Board, retail employee’s statutory right to refuse to work on a Sunday, retail sector, Right to refuse to work on Sunday, right to refuse work, Work schedule

By Occasional Contributors | 3 Minutes Read January 28, 2015

Steps companies can take to protect themselves from data breaches

The malevolently-inclined are getting more ambitious (a 2014 study by the Ponemon Institute that evaluated security-breach costs in the retail sector suggests that average size of a breach is about 30,000 records) and more damaging (average loss is now about $105 per stolen record). The same study estimated that the average cost of a cyber-crime for the retailer is about $3.15-million. These are average numbers only: recent large-scale retail breaches have involved records in the millions, with costs similarly increased. Although the article was written before the holidays, the tips provided are still very useful to manage the risk of security breaches.

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