Top 5 Tips for Employers: Accommodation Best Practices
Rodney Employment Law’s Founder, Jordan Rodney discusses the top 5 tips for accommodation best practices.
Top 5 Tips for Employers: Termination Best Practices
Rodney Employment Law’s Founder, Jordan Rodney discusses the top five tips for managing employee terminations.
Ontario Superior Court: Exceptional Notice Awards Will Be Awarded in Cases with Exceptional Circumstances
Written by: Arjun Dhir It is time to say goodbye to the 24-month upper limit on common law notice periods. The writing has been on the wall since 2015, as we have seen notice awards slowly [...]
Employees have a duty to mitigate in constructive dismissals
By: AdvocateDaily.com Staff for AdvocateDaily.com People collecting a severance after being let go from a company have to be sure they are fulfilling their duty to mitigate damages, even if they [...]
Top 10 Employment Law Cases and Developments of 2018
1. Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act (“Bill 148”) Came into Effect 2018 started off with a bang as the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act (“Bill 148”) came into effect on [...]
The Courts Have Spoken: Termination Clauses MUST be “Compliant” “Clear” and “Unambiguous”
Written by: Arjun Dhir In the past month, the Ontario Superior Court and Ontario Court of Appeal have released two decisions that have continued the recent trend of overturning termination [...]
Did the Employee Quit? When a Resignation is actually a Termination.
Consider you have a disgruntled employee working for you and you suspect he wants to quit. However, you are also prepared to terminate him. One day, the employee verbally mentions to you that [...]
Case confirms employees have rights during probation period
By: Miriam Anbar for AdvocateDaily.com | Employers need to demonstrate good faith during probation periods when they’re assessing whether a relationship with a new employee is going to work out, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]