Author Profile: Cameron Hilker
What are employees’ statutory holiday leave rights?
12/16/2022
What are employees’ statutory holiday leave rights? Statutory holidays are great days to spend extra time with family. However, the rights to statutory ...
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Employers should implement remote work policies
12/9/2022During the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses required their employees to work from home due to the restrictions put in place by various levels of governme...
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Employers need to be concerned about workplace cyber security
12/2/2022Cyber security and cyber attacks may seem like issues that only affect governments and large businesses. After all, there is always a news story about a no...
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Common human decency: bad faith in the manner of dismissal
11/18/2022Common human decency: bad faith in the manner of dismissal When an employer dismisses an employee, they create an emotional situation, as it is distressin...
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Can an employer fire half of its employees?
11/11/2022Can an employer fire half of its employees? In early November, news broke that Twitter was firing half of its staff. Meta (Facebook’s parent company...
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The non-reliance on a provision is irrelevant if it violates the Employment Standards Act
11/7/2022Employers need to be careful when drafting provisions in their contracts. Provincially regulated employers in Ontario can use contract provisions to limit ...
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Employers’ mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies need to evolve
10/28/2022In a previous blog, I explained how Parmar v Tribe Management Inc. (2022 BCSC 1675) is a major win for non-unionized employers. It held that employers coul...
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Provincially Regulated Employers must have a Written Electronic Monitoring Policy
10/24/2022Employers with 25 or more employees, as of January 1, 2022, must have a written electronic monitoring policy in place by October 11, 2022. This change come...
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The Employer’s Little – Known Duty to Inquire
10/14/2022The Employer’s Little-Known Duty to Inquire Typically, the employer has no duty to accommodate an issue that they are unaware of. However, there are...
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A mandatory vaccine policy’s penalty of unpaid leave does not amount to constructive dismissal
10/10/2022A mandatory vaccine policy’s penalty of unpaid leave does not amount to constructive dismissal The Supreme Court of British Columbia recently became the...
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