There’s no simple way around it – getting terminated from a job is not pleasant. Whether you saw the writing on the wall or it came as a total surprise, losing a job is always difficult. Employees often talk about
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Change of Substratum: Are Employment Contracts Enforceable After Substantial Changes?
What happens when an employee’s job has changed so much that the relationship is completely different than it was when they signed their contract of employment? For example, the individual who starts as a junior clerk at $15/hour and works…
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How Expensive is Employment Law Litigation?
When someone retains us to pursue an employment law claim on their behalf, they inevitably ask two questions:
The reality is that both of these things are linked, and…
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COVID-19: Getting Back to Business (Again) – FAQ
By Rudner Law
In May of 2020, the team at Rudner Law prepared a thorough, comprehensive return-to-work guidebook. At the time, few expected COVID-19 lockdowns to last more than a few weeks. We were hopeful, like most Canadians, that the problem had been…
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Childcare Obligations: How Much Has to Be Accommodated?
By Rudner Law
Family Status Obligations
This is a follow up to Part One, in which we discussed a strategy for requesting accommodation. If you have yet to read Part One, we would recommend those strategies as a starting point. At this…
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Can I Change My Work Schedule to Care for My Kids?
By Rudner Law
Making a Request To Change Your Work Schedule
What happens when you ask your employer for some flexibility in your work schedule because of your obligations to your children? This might be especially necessary in the near future as many…
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Severance for Short Service Employees
Stuart Rudner here with another Rudner Law video employment law update.
So I’ve said this before and I will say it again: do not assume that short service employees will only get minimal or no severance at all, and…
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Is Mandatory Vaccination Now The Norm?
I have started writing this blog post three times, and each time, it seems like the landscape shifts before I can finalize it.
Initially, the prevailing view about requiring employees to be vaccinated was to proceed with caution and not…
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Mitigation: Employee’s Obligations and Employer’s Rights
Stuart Rudner here with another Rudner Law video employment law update.
Today I want to talk about the issue of mitigation. We often talk about the fact that an employee that has been let go from their job has…
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To Disconnect, or Not to Disconnect – That is the Question
By Nadia Zaman
As work from home becomes an indefinite reality for many workers across the globe, various governments are considering whether to implement the right to disconnect. Back in 2016, before the pandemic, France introduced legislation allowing employees to turn off their…
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