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Category: HR Law

Tweeting Terminations: 5 Key Employment Considerations for Corporate Reorganizations

Posted In: Employment, HR Law  By: Michael Murphy

By Michael Murphy and Melissa Pike #reorganization #whattoconsider #reorgwithcare Elon Musk has been making headlines for weeks now after his acquisition of Twitter, and the mass layoff or termination of approximately 3700 employees (or more than half…

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Take as Directed: 5 Tips For Dealing with Absenteeism in the Workplace

Posted In: Employment, General, HR Law, Human Rights  By: Michael Murphy

By Michael Murphy and Melissa Pike The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted workplaces in many ways, including with regards to how employers manage employee absences due to illness. This issue is especially pressing this time of year, given…

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The ACT Matrix – A Trauma Informed Way to Resolve Disputes

Posted In: Coaching, HR Law, Human Rights, Mediation, Non-profits  By: Pink Larkin

By Ronald Pizzo and Dr. Dayna Lee-Bagley Humans have a biological need for connection. We are social beings.  Our nature is to interact and form relationships with others. We are also wired to survive. We are always…

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Restoring Workplace Teams – What can the T.C. Williams Titans teach us?

Posted In: Coaching, General, HR Law, Non-profits  By: Pink Larkin

In 1971, coach Herman Boone became the first African American head coach for the Virginian high school football team, the T.C. Williams Titans.   Also, in 1971 T.C. Williams became a desegregated school amid high racial tensions and…

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Does My Employer Have to Give Me Time Off Work to Vote?

Posted In: Employment, HR Law  By: Katrin MacPhee

A federal election is fast approaching. Polls will be open from 8:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. in the Maritime Provinces on election day, October 21st. If you’re among the many employees scheduled to be at work for all or…

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Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again – Restoring Teams Post Investigation

Posted In: Coaching, Employment, HR Law, Labour, Workplace Investigations  By: Ronald E. Pizzo

A workplace investigation is not a tool for ‘fixing’ broken work environments or healing broken workplace relationships. The after-effects of an  investigation can  make things worse.  Teams stuck in conflict are less productive and less efficient. In…

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What Unions Need to Know About Cannabis

Posted In: Employment, General, HR Law, Human Rights, Labour  By: Pink Larkin

Partial Legalization – What is legal? possession up to 30 grams of legal cannabis, dried or equivalent in non-dried form in public share up to 30 grams of legal cannabis with other adults buy dried or fresh…

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Ontario Midwives Win Important Human Rights Case on Pay Equity

Posted In: General, HR Law, Human Rights  By: Pink Larkin

By Dan Wilband On September 24, 2018, at the outset of Canada’s Gender Equality Week, the Association of Ontario Midwives obtained a historic win from the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. This decision is an important victory…

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#WorkLawWednesday: La légalisation du cannabis et le monde du travail

Posted In: Employment, General, HR Law, Labour  By: Pink Larkin

Par Roxalie LeBeau-Hébert Information Générale 1. Historique du Projet de loi C-45  La Loi sur le cannabis (Projet de loi C-45) décriminalise le cannabis et permet au gouvernement fédéral de licencier les producteurs. Cette Loi a été approuvée…

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Five Steps for Increasing Your Productivity at Work – Upping Your Inner Game

Posted In: Coaching, Employment, HR Law  By: Ronald E. Pizzo

Every day, we struggle to get our work done on time.  Despite our best intentions, our to-do lists keep growing and we often don’t quite finish what we have to get done. It is even more difficult…

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