The Myth of a Happy Workplace

By David M. Brown As an employment lawyer, I regularly meet with people dealing with chronic work related stress. They often come in to my...

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Y’all Come Back Now, Hear?

By Robert Smithson The weird world of employment law sometimes compels employees to go back to work for the very employer which fired them. Recently,...

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Probation Meant as an Opportunity to Demonstrate Skills

By Robert Smithson I sometimes refer to the probation period as the Rodney Dangerfield of employment law (for those of you not old enough to...

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Resolutions for Business in 2013

By Robert Smithson In the weeks before the end of 2012, I had been mulling over the phrase “do better” as a way of capturing...

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Five Things Managers Need to Know

By Robert Smithson Employers commonly give department managers the authority to make employment-related decisions for their own staff. Even when a company has an in-house...

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Pendulum Swings in Employees’ Favour Again

By Robert Smithson One of the areas of employment law which remains least predictable is the enforceability of post-employment restrictive covenants. A recent decision of...

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Less is More When Imposing Covenants

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...

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Facebook: The New Office Water Cooler

By Ryan McFarlane With websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, Linkedln, LiveJournal, MySpace, Delicious, Digg, Youtube, etc, our daily montage of comments, observations, celebrations,...

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