Sooner or later, employment law creeps into all of our lives, as summer students at Burger King, manager of a shredding company, CEO of Toyota Canada or as owner of the Vancouver Canucks. This article offers an excellent brew of the essentials of employment law in Canada.
Employment law in regards to the employment contracts of minors, those not yet of the age-of-majority.
So much is, can and should be done via agents in today's complex international commercial world. This article gives you an "in's and out's" of this branch of the law; the law of agents and of agency. At the table are agents, principals and third-parties.
Employer's are not entitled to heavy-handedly manipulate the terms of an employee's employment contract. Doing so exposes the employer to the departur...
Senior staff such as managers and the like, should keep their eyes open to what they can and cannot do less they find themselves short a million dollars or so.
Every year, 3-million Canadians apply for, and receive, unemployment insurance benefits. Since June 30, 1996, the new phrase is "employment insurance" as the federal government implements the new
Employment Insurance Act.
Kids, immigrants and even Jim carey (Fun With Dick and Jane) need to know the bottom line in regards to basic legal rights for non-unionized employees in British Columbia.
At minimum wage, overtime, haven't been given a lunch break in seven hours (!) and with a boss yelling, we try as best we can to get this article out on ... employment standards in Ontario!
Here. There. Everywhere ... are human rights statutes defending the weak and the vulnerable.
Like scratching eczema, being insolence may feel good for the few seconds that it lasts but almost as soon as it's over, the insolent employee may finds himself unemployed and with a black mark on his employment record.
Labour Law refers to that branch of the law which pertains to unionized workplaces. It is a branch of the law which has taken off even from the solid base of administrative law, and where the rule of law is no longer well grounded; to some, a "good thing" and merely a necessity given the specialized nature of labour law; but to others caught within its tentacles, an arbitrary forum where Lady Justice does not have season tickets. This article reviews the essentials of labout law but also ponders whether "the King has no clothes".
The law as it relates to probationary periods of employment and the probationary employee.
"Don't employ without it", a popular phrase for restrictive covenants in employment situations. But the courts view restrictive covenants with disdain...
Squabbling over severance pay for dismissal without cause is often the biggest sticking point between an employer who wants to shed an employee and an employee who wants fair terms. Here, we dissect a few representative cases.
Unjust dismissal is concerned with an employer failing to give an employee adequate severance pay, or where the employer alleges that dismissal is unjustified. It can be a high-stakes cat and mouse contest, best left to specialized lawyers, but which is generally described in this article to the benefit of the uninitiated.