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Hydro One: Severance Packages
Laid off or lost your job at Hydro One? Learn about your employment rights in Canada and how to calculate your severance…
Can an employee work remotely due to rising gas prices?
An employment lawyer explores an employee's right to work from home as gas prices in Canada skyrocket due to global events.
Severance denied to GoodLife Fitness employees due to refusal to respond to email
Employment lawyer Jon Pinkus spoke to CTV News to discuss GoodLife Fitness instructors' inability to pursue severance by failing to respond to…
Employment lawyer on wrongful dismissals and challenging vaccine requirements
Employment lawyer Chantel Goldsmith speaks to SHRM on employee rights and the challenges of employer's imposing vaccine mandates at work.
Lior Samfiru on employers removing vaccine policies at work
Employment lawyer Lior Samfiru spoke to the Globe and Mail's Vanmala Subramaniam regarding employers removing vaccine policies at the workplace.
Employment lawyer on CJSW talks employee accommodations
Employment lawyer Hayley Rushford joins Hearsay on CJSW to discuss employee rights and an employer's duty to accommodate.
Employers can’t claim unsubstantiated resignation to avoid paying severance
First Choice Collision Ltd. v. Talbot First Choice Collision Ltd. v Talbot confirms that for a resignation to…
Employee rights and hybrid work arrangements
Hybrid work arrangements are becoming the norm for due to COVID-19. What rights to employees have if they return to work in…
Severance rights set to expire for workers still on March 2020 layoffs
Thousands of Canadians still sitting on temporary layoffs since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 are running out of…