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Disgruntled Employees: Post-Employment Legal Obligations
Find out what legal obligations that both an employer and employee have once an employee has been terminated by reading this article.
CBC News – Why Disability Claims for Mental Illness Can Be Difficult to Navigate
Disability Lawyer Sivan Tumarkin, co-founding partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, talks about why disability claims for mental illness are tough to navigate.
Refusing to Work Because of a Pro-life Advertisement on an Employee’s Bus
A bus driver was sent home without pay because she refused to drive a bus with a controversial ad on it. Can…
Client Win: Employee Wins 17-Month Severance After Unfair Demotion Offer
Samfiru Tumarkin LLP secures 17 months of severance for a client after rejecting a demotion with a pay cut.
The Increasing Costs of Terminating Older Employees
The older an employee is, and the longer they have spent in a company’s employ, the more severance they will be entitled…
CIBC workers laid off, expected to help with training replacements – Global News
Can an employer force an employee to train the person who will soon be replacing them? That is exactly what is happening…
640 Toronto – Man Tests Positive For Melanoma But Doctor’s Didn’t Let Him Know
A B.C woman is claiming that health professionals failed to notify her husband that he’d tested positive for melanoma five years before…
CIBC Staff Losing Jobs to Workers in India, Expected to Help with Training
CIBC is eliminating up to 130 jobs in its Toronto finance department. As part of the transition, staff losing their positions must…
Police Probe Report of Radicalized Montreal Airport Employees – 640 Toronto
When an employee has been accused of radicalization, causing the safety of the public to be at risk, what are both the…