What if one of your key employees leaves to join or start a competing business? Or worse still, what if a number of your key employees leave as a team? The more senior the employees, the more likely they will have had access to your confidential information and data; this often hands them the ability, should they choose to use it, to misuse your data and confidential information and poach your customers and staff. […]
A recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision means that a properly drafted employment contract can protect employers andtheir employees from personal liability when carrying out a termination.
In Richards v. Media Experts M.H.S. Inc., Lauren Richards, the CEO of Media Experts, was terminated for cause less than one year after she was hired. Richards sued Media Experts for wrongful dismissal and personally named its founder and executive chairman, Mark Sherman, claiming his actions during termination caused her […]
Harassment is one of the most frequent complaints brought by employees. Last month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission identified its priorities for 2013 in a new Strategic Enforcement Plan. Preventing harassment in the workplace was included in this list of priorities.
Not too long ago in Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, 555 U.S. 271 (2009), the United States Supreme Court reminded employers that they are subject to a “strong inducement to ferret […]