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- 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 »
- Howard Levitt: Why fear of firing is more damaging than firing itself
Small business owners are gripped by an insidious fear: the dread of terminating employees. I hear it virtually every time I speak to a new employer client. It is a fear cloaked in legality, draped in potential confrontation and rationalized by uncertainty — yet it is quietly devouring profitabili … Read more »
- When seasonal hires look more like permanent employees, be prepared to pay
Every spring, Canadian employers repeat the same ritual: they hire “ summer students â€� and seasonal staff, comforted by the belief that these relationships are, by definition, temporary — tidy engagements that begin in May and end, without consequence, in August. That belief is misplaced. Empl … Read more »