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The cost of getting it wrong in workplace investigations – Part 2

In continuation of this blog series, here are some more notable cases over the last decade that employers and HR leaders can learn from to truly understand the cost of getting workplace investigations wrong. In case you missed the first part of this blog series, you can read it here.

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All reasonable precautions

How far does an employer have to go in order to meet its statutory duty to provide a healthy and safe workplace? What can you do when a former employee insists on returning to the workplace and causing trouble? In General Motors of Canada Company v. Osita-Adubasim, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (“ONSCJ”) found that in the right circumstances, an employer could obtain an injunction to ban them from the workplace.

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Cyberbullying in the workplace

Although the concept of psychological and sexual harassment in the workplace has been around for quite some time, it still remains a hot topic. It has generated a lot of attention especially since the introduction of article 81.18 of the Act respecting labour standards which has provided a definition of psychological harassment by indicating its criteria.

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