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- Howard Levitt: New workplace monitoring software has employees up in arms. They're concerned about the wrong thing
Employees are concerned about workplace surveillance . They are missing the point. What they should be concerned about is the delegation of management to algorithms. When TD Bank announced it would begin monitoring employees’ digital activity during the workday — tracking browser usage, messaging pl … Read more »
- When a disability such as addiction won't shield employees from being terminated for cause
Termination for cause has been described by the courts as the ultimate corporate death penalty. It takes away an employee’s entitlement to notice, termination pay and severance. Courts therefore rightly demand compelling justification before allowing an employer to impose it. But there are circumsta … Read more »
- Howard Levitt: RBC pays high price for wrongful dismissal of financial adviser
Sometimes I come out a little ahead of the law. In my June 19 column, I wrote about a largely overlooked danger for financial institutions that fire financial advisers for cause and then report the alleged misconduct to their regulator. In such cases, the employee does not merely lose a job. They ca … Read more »
- TMU provides lesson in what not to do with independent investigations
Every employer that commissions an independent investigation should study how Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) is responding to Justice Mary Lou Benotto’s report. Not as a model, but as a warning of what never to do. An independent investigation has a purpose . An organization brings in an outs … Read more »
- The key to settlement negotiations lies in one simple sentence
I’ve seldom seen an employer settle a wrongful dismissal claim because of a brilliant legal argument. That’s not because the law doesn’t matter. It does. The legal merits establish the range within which a settlement is likely to occur. But they rarely determine whether a settlement is reached. The … Read more »