Video Surveillance at Work
The use of video cameras in the workplace is on the rise. There may be many reasons an employer is interested in installing cameras in the workplace, such as monitoring employee misconduct, protecting company property, and ensuring employee safety. Whatever the reason for installing cameras, employers must ensure that they comply with privacy laws.
What’s Involved in HR Legal Issues?
Savvy employers make it their business to ensure their management team is current and knowledgeable about all employment-related laws that affect their business, thus preventing costly and time-consuming complaints and investigations.
Social Media Policies in the Workplace: Tips
The various Canadian decisions and recent events demonstrate the need for both employees and employers to understand how social networking fits into traditional employment and labour concepts. Social media policies need to be integrated into companies’ existing policies on protection of privacy and confidential information, workplace safety, conduct in the workplace and discipline.
Social Media Policies in the Workplace: Case Studies
The use of social media in the workplace has exploded in recent years and employers are struggling to keep up. With easier accessibility to the internet, the popularity of smart phones and the introduction of new social media outlets, it is not surprising.
Social Media in the World of Employment Law
With websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedln, , Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch etc., our daily montage of comments, observations, celebrations, drunken debauchery, frustrations, relationship woes and what we ate for breakfast are now more public than ever before. But how does this online instant publication translate into the world of workplace law?
Vacations and Vacation Pay
Part 7 of the Employment Standards Act provides for minimum levels of vacation time and vacation pay for your employees. Vacation time is the time an employee is entitled to take off from work, while vacation pay provides employees with pay while absent during vacation.
Reservist Leave
The Employment Standards Act provides statutory job protection to civilians serving as military reservists in the Canadian Forces.
Overtime Pay
Overtime pay is often necessary in order to meet customer, production or other operational demands. However, it is crucial that you understand the intricacies of the overtime provisions in the Employment Standards Act, in order to manage the overtime you pay and ensure you don’t incur liability for overtime you might fail to pay.
Minimum Wages
The issue of minimum wages is sometimes a source of confusion, particularly when commissions, incentives or bonus schemes are factored in.
Leaves of Absence
Part 6 of the Employment Standards Act provides all employees, regardless of their length of employment, with the right to certain unpaid leaves of absence while protecting the right to return to work. These provisions of the Act provide important, mandatory obligations on the part of the employer.