Vaughan Chamber of Commerce 2017 Business Achievement Awards Finalist
Rodney Employment Law is honoured to have been one of three finalists in the small business category at the Vaughan Chamber of Commerce 2017 Business Achievement Awards! Watch the video to learn more about our company.
Marijuana in the Workplace: What does this mean for Employers?
Marijuana in the Workplace: What does this mean for Employers? The legalization of marijuana is on the horizon. What does this mean for Canadian employers? Employers should be aware that marijuana has a variety of impairment effects, including reduced reaction times, irritability, loss of focus, lethargy, disengagement with reality and poor decision making. On March […]
Wood v. Deeley 2017 Court of Appeal Decision: A Must Read for Employers!
In the recent case Wood v. Fred Deeley Imports Ltd., 2017 ONCA 158 (CanLII) , the Ontario Court of Appeal determined that any breach of Ontario’s Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA) in a termination clause of an employment contract, will render it unenforceable. The employer, Fred Deeley Imports Ltd. (“Deeley”) hired Ms. Julia Wood (“Wood”) in […]
New Requirements for Employers under Bill 132
Harassment of any kind has no place in the workplace. Employers are legally obligated to ensure the work environment is safe and free from any form of workplace harassment or workplace sexual harassment. With Bill 132 coming into effect September 8, 2016, it is important for you to be aware of the expanded definition of harassment along with […]
The End of Just Energy’s Power Trip: The Case for Understanding Employee Classifications
If it looks like an employee, talks like an employee and acts like an employee… guess what? It’s probably an employee! How to classify a worker – Independent Contractor vs. Employee – is one of the most complex and challenging issues in today’s workplace. If you are one of our clients who has dealt with this […]
When Online Trolls Cost You Your Job: Did Nintendo Fail to Protect its Employee?
There has been a lot of buzz recently about Nintendo’s decision to terminate its employee Alison Rapp. Rapp was a product manager for Nintendo who held spokesperson status and regularly represented the company on social media. Recently, Rapp was targeted by online trolls and harassed with respect to Nintendo’s decision to tone down its sexualization […]
What You Do Outside of Work Could Cost You Your Job!
In our current digital age there is an increasing blur between personal and work life. As a result of the internet and social media, an employee’s off-duty behaviour is increasingly visible to their employer and the general public. Content can be shared with the world in a matter of seconds on social media and there […]
Anyone Can be a Target: Dealing with Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
What do you think about when you hear the term “sexual harassment”? Sexual harassment in employment is often believed to involve unwanted comments, contact or attention towards females by male perpetrators. Sexual harassment may be thought of in this way as a result of statistics that have shown there to be more reports of sexual […]
Grey Power: A Guide to Older Workers
When the Beatles sang about turning 64 and pondering who would care for them in their old age – they were still young men, and would not reach their 60s for another four decades. Today, surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are still hard at work recording and touring into their 70s, and they […]
Risky Business: How to Keep the Bedroom out of the Boardroom
The line between personal and professional lives has gotten blurry. With increased social media usage in the workplace (read more about that on our blog here), and business communications now accessed by smartphones around the clock, it has become harder and harder to keep the two worlds separate. Yet when it comes to relationships in […]