By Robert Smithson
One of the tasks for which many managers are unprepared is the workplace investigation. The guidelines for performing this function effectively are...
By Robert Smithson
I’ve written many times on the topic of the unpredictable impact of covenants restricting employees’ post-employment activities. What is certain about such...
By Kellie Auld, CHRP
I recently provided a workshop for a client on workplace accommodation and a couple of the participants came to me afterward...
By J. Geoffrey Howard
The recent decision of the B.C. Supreme Court in Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP v. McCormick has confirmed that even full...
By Robert Smithson
The sad decline and fall of Canada’s Brigadier General Daniel Menard came to a close last week. It proved that, for everyone...
By Sarah Forte
In the era of the “sandwich generation,” many employees are balancing work with significant family obligations – caring for children, aging parents,...
By Robert Smithson
I previously wrote Things Your Employment Doesn’t Include and the feedback I received indicated that employers were relieved to see the boundaries...
By Robert Smithson
I don’t know if it’s a sign of the times or simply that I’m getting older and crankier, but it seems like...
