Every few years a Canadian employer takes a run at the human rights-based rules preventing workplace drug and alcohol testing.
When something like the Newtown massacre happens, it’s difficult to know how to react or what to do.
A recent fire in a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is a grim indicator of how little some countries have done to protect employees.
Many scoffed at that prospect of a 10-year collective agreement with B.C.'s unionized teachers.
A form of release is to provide the employer with comfort that the individual will not commence future court actions.
Too little attention is given by employers to the value of the benefits lost as a result of an employee termination.
That 1979 Canadian Caper rescue effort ranks, in my lifetime at least, as one of the great, inspiring stories of workplace heroism.
The offers put forward by the league and the players appear as different as apples and oranges.
The aspect of London 2012 which stood out in my mind was the controversy over athletes not trying hard enough.
Now is the time of year when many employers are filling out their seasonal workforce.
Robert Smithson says existing employees can become very unhappy when the owner's spouse is hired to work for the business.
In the history of questionable dismissals of employees, the saga of journalist Edward Kennedy has to rank near the top of the list.
The reality of our legal system is seeking the truth is reliant on fallible humans.
Employers commonly give department managers the authority to make employment-related decisions for their own staff.
Most employers likely believe an employee given notice of termination and who refuses to keep working has forfeited legal claim to damages.
Perhaps surprisingly, it isn’t always the money which is the stumbling block to reaching a settlement.
Of all the technological developments that cause a loss of workplace attentiveness, the cell phone must be the undisputed champion.