Steps for a Social Media Misconduct Investigation
By. Ted Panagiotoulias What do you do when an employee’s off-duty social media posts become a complaint at work? Off-duty social media conduct has become a common source of concern…
Off the Clock, Online, and Out of a Job: Social Media and Off-Duty Misconduct
By. Samantha Seabrook In the digital era, where the boundaries between personal and professional lives are increasingly porous, social media has become an extension of the workplace when employee expression…
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The Future of Financing in Creating Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive Workplaces
By: Nastaran Roushan DEI is the Future. Financing Can Help Us Get There As Canada moves to create more relationships with countries across the globe, it is more important than…
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May Day and the Modern Unionized Workplace: How Employers and Unions Can Shape the Future of Work Together
By: Ted Panagiotoulias May Day—International Workers’ Day—has always been a time to reflect on the achievements of the labour movement. In today’s rapidly evolving world of work, it is also…
WFH vs. Office vs. Hybrid: Which is really the most productive?
By: Samantha Seabrook More than 5 years ago, the world discovered a new way of working. The knowledge economy moved en masse to work-from-home, and since then, the debate has…
Bonus Payouts: Your contract is everything
The question of whether or not an employee is entitled to their bonus upon leaving their job is not so much a question of whether they are terminated by the employer or whether they resign, but rather, whether the bonus has already been earned and is payable at the time of departure. As such, the answer will almost always depend on the language of the employment contract.
Use Employment Contracts to Protect Your Company’s Confidential Information
By: Karina Pogosyan Employers often worry (with good reason) about protecting their confidential information. After all, organizations typically derive business advantage by ensuring exclusive use of their confidential, proprietary information.…
A Fresh Look At Consideration (or Why You Need to Update Your Employment Contracts)
By: Karina Pogosyan Consideration is the necessary ingredient for implementing enforceable new employment agreements with your existing employees. January of each year is a wonderful opportunity for all of us…
5 Reasons to Review Employment Contracts Right Now
By: Samantha Seabrook and Rebecca Meharchand Here are five reasons employers should have their employment contracts reviewed right now. Non-compete agreements are no longer allowed in employment contracts. As of…
The Substratum Doctrine (Start-Ups – this one’s for you)
By Samantha Seabrook A growing organization means lots of changes, re-jigging positions, moving people around the org chart, and quickly expanding roles. Hey, that’s how you create an agile, competitive,…