Author Profile: Cameron Hilker
Incarceration can frustrate an employee’s contract
3/13/2024
Employees can get arrested and charged for crimes that they committed inside and outside of the workplace. Such a situation already puts an employer in an ...
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- Guide for Employers
Employers should be careful before claiming that an employment contract is frustrated
3/5/2024When an employment contract is frustrated, an employer is exempt from providing the employee with notice or pay in lieu of notice. An employment contract w...
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- Guide for Employers
A recent case shows that progressive discipline works
2/26/2024Most modern workplaces have a workplace policy that sets out the rules of the workplace. Often the workplace policy includes a progressive discipline polic...
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- Legal Blog - SD Law
Lack of a written employment contract and clear policies cost an employer almost $2 million
2/20/2024Though it may surprise some, a lot of employment agreements are made orally. Sometimes it works out well. However, by creating an oral agreement, you put y...
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- Legal Blog - SD Law
Short-term employees can sometimes receive a substantial reasonable notice period
2/9/2024It is hard to find a new job after you are fired regardless of the reason for the termination. The law recognizes this. In Ontario, employees are entitled ...
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- Legal Blog - SD Law
Timmins-Area Gold Mine Worker Gets Fired For Testing Positive For Marijuana Twice
8/25/2023Timmins-area Gold Mine Worker Gets Fired For Testing Positive For Marijuana Twice In a 2015 blog post, Suzanne Desrosiers wrote that the legalization of m...
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- Legal Blog - SD Law
Interesting Employment Law Cases Of The First Half Of 2023
7/12/2023We are already past the first half of 2023. Already there have been several interesting employment law cases. This blog will focus on those interesting cas...
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- Legal Blog - SD Law
An Ontario Court of Appeal decision confirms that employers cannot discriminate in the hiring process
7/11/2023It can be easy for employers to forget that they have human rights obligations to job applicants from the moment that the job is posted. In other words, ap...
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- Legal Blog - SD Law
Slurs At Work Can Be Discriminatory
6/16/2023Words have different meanings to different people. What one sees as a slur may not be seen as a slur by another. However, what makes a word a slur in the l...
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- Legal Blog - SD Law
The Importance Of Civility During And After A Termination
6/9/2023Though my blogs talk a lot about the legal aspects of termination, it is important to always remember that there is a human element to termination. It is h...
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- Legal Blog - SD Law