Employment Law
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Severance Pay for Truck Drivers
Many truck drivers think they can’t get severance pay as independent contractors. But they could be wrong about the nature of their…
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Rights for Employees to Continue Working Rmotely after COVID: CBC News
A Vancouver employment lawyer joined CBC Radio On the Coast to discuss employee rights in returning to the office post-pandemic and working…
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Meta announces new Toronto engineering hub, adding 2,500 jobs
Meta plans to open a Toronto office and add 2,500 new jobs. An employment lawyer explains what an employee needs to know…
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How much severance is a short-service employee owed?
Find out how severance pay is calculated for employees who are fired after spending a short amount of time working for a…
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Samfiru Tumarkin LLP launches new weekday show on Toronto talk radio station
Samfiru Tumarkin LLP has launched a new weekday call-in show about employment and disability rights on talk radio station 640 Toronto.
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Joe Natale: Severance pay for Rogers CEO
Find out how much severance pay former Rogers CEO Joe Natale received, and how severance is calculated for employees and senior executives.
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Thinkific: Severance Packages
Laid off or lost your job at Thinkific? Learn about your employment rights in Canada and how to calculate your severance pay.
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Can a termination be treated as a resignation?
A recent story about GoodLife Fitness raises the question: what is the difference between resigning and getting fired? An employment lawyer explains…
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Transparency in the legal world
Partner Sivan Tumarkin explains the vital role that honesty and transparency play in the legal world, and changes that must be made…