Employment Hour 580 CFRA – S2 E9

Summary

Canadian Employment Lawyer Lior Samfiru, founding partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, reveals your workplace rights in Ontario on The Employment Hour.

Every Saturday at 5pm on Newstalk 580 CFRA, Samfiru Tumarkin LLP shatters myths and misconceptions about severance pay, terminations, workplace harassment, overtime pay, wrongful dismissal, constructive dismissal, duty to accommodate, and more.

What We Covered

Inappropriate performance reviews (and how to react), fired for cause due to an email exchange, workplace reprisals and how to identify them, the perils of a non-competition clause, severance pay when a business closes, holiday pay and vacation pay, and MORE.

1:50 – Am I owed severance pay if I was hired through a temp agency (temporary agency)? Are people hired through a temp agency considered an employee of the agency or the hiring business?

4:37 – CALL: I worked 9 years at a company. I was fired for cause over an email. I was not provided with any severance pay. Am I owed anything? Did they have a right to fire me?

10:17 – I injured my back and had to go through rehab. When I returned to work, I was given a lesser position (I was a supervisor before my medical leave). Can my employer change my role? Is that a constructive dismissal?

13:00 – What should a business do if they no longer have a role for an employee returning from a medical leave?

13:57 – What is a reprisal at work?

15:36 – What are common examples of a workplace reprisal?

17:26 – What should I do if I think I am owed overtime pay?

19:12 – Can an employee be punished if an employee makes a request that turns out to be wrong?

20:55 – What should an employee do if they are punished for standing up for their employment rights?

22:36 – I quit my job because my employer owed my holiday pay and vacation pay. Is there something I can do to get what he owes me?

24:40 – What is a non-competition obligation? What is a non-compete clause?

26:02 – CALL: What protections do I have against an inappropriate performance review?

30:27 – How often are non-competition clauses included in employment contracts?

33:32 – There is a non-compete clause in my contract, and I want to work for a competitor. What are my options?

35:08 – What can a company do to stop an employee from working for a competitor?

37:29 – I found out that my employer is retiring and closing his business in six months. I’ve worked there for 16 years. Am I owed any severance pay?

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