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- Employee mental health concerns now at the core of workplace litigation
By Howard Levitt and Jeffrey Buchan There has been a quiet but unmistakable shift in Canadian workplaces — one that many employers do not fully grasp until it is too late. Employee mental health is no longer a peripheral concern confined to cases of harassment or abuse . Increasingly, it sits at t … Read more »
- The most expensive employee to fire is the one you thought you could afford to lose
When the economy softens, employers tend to reach for the same lever : headcount. It feels rational. Revenues shrink, forecasts blur, and payroll, usually the largest expense, becomes the obvious place to act. In a weak job market, the assumption follows naturally: employees have fewer options, less … Read more »
- Why the internal job posting is often misleading — and legally risky
For many Canadian employees, the most misleading document they will encounter is not an employment contract. It is an internal job posting. Employers increasingly promote the idea of “careers within.â€� Roles are posted, competitions run, interviews conducted . The process appears structured, fair … Read more »
- Court affirms an accepted severance offer is binding, even when left unsigned
By Howard Levitt and Arash Omidvar There is a quiet but persistent fiction in employment law — one that circulates in boardrooms and, more worryingly, as careless legal advice — that a severance offer can be accepted as a placeholder, revisited at leisure and later discarded if, upon reflection, … Read more »
- Air Canada's Rousseau affair shows the high cost of a seemingly 'soft' skill
My initial temptation was to dismiss the latest controversy surrounding Michael Rousseau as political theatre — another Quebec language storm that will pass as quickly as it formed. How could an employer that knowingly hired a unilingual CEO take issue when it becomes an embarrassment? That would … Read more »