The corporate counsel guide to employment law
By: Peter Wilson, Allison Taylor
Contributors: Taylor, Allison, 1957-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Corporate counsel guides to the law; Corporate counsel guides to the law
Publisher: Canada Law Book
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Aurora, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780888043832
Subjects: Labor laws and legislation; Normes de travail
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Hiring; title: Chapter 1. Human rights; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Discrimination in hiring; title: 3. Statutory exemptions; title: 4. Vicarious liability; title: 5. Summation; title: Schedule A: Prohibited grounds of discrimination; title: Schedule B: Statutory references to employment advertising, application forms, employment interviews and employment agencies; title: Schedule C: Questioning employment applications; title: Schedule D: Sample application for employment; title: Chapter 2. Wrongful hiring; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Negligent misrepresentation; title: 3. The critical issue: negligent misrepresentation in a contractual setting; title: 4. Queen v. Cognos Inc.; title: 5. Summation: points to consider; title: Chapter 3. The employment contract; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Basic implied obligations; title: 3. Written contracts of employment; title: 4. Specific terms in contracts of employment; title: 5. A special case: the "golden parachute"; title: 6. Summation; title: Schedule A: Sample employment contract for new employee; title: indefinite term; title: Schedule B: Sample employment contract for new employee; title: fixed term; title: Schedule C: Sample employment contract for corporate executive; title: renewal; title: Part II: The employment relationship; title: Chapter 4. Employment standards; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Scope of act; title: 3. Agreements to vary; title: 4. Wages and benefits; title: 5. Hours of work, eating periods and public holidays; title: 6. Employee leave; title: 7. Administration and enforcement; title: Schedule A: Hours of work and pay; title: Schedule B: Employee leave; title: Schedule C: Holidays and vacation entitlement; title: Chapter 5. Occupational health and safety; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Joint health and safety committees; title: 3. Right to refuse or stop work; title: 4. Injury or death in the workplace; title: 5. Liability and defences to prosecution; title: Schedule A: Criteria and composition of joint health and safety committees; title: Schedule B: Powers and duties of joint health and safety committees; title: Schedule C: Right of employee to refuse or stop work; title: Chapter 6. Workers' compensation; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Structure of workers' compensation system; title: 3. Operation of workers' compensation system; title: 4. Workplace safety and insurance board; title: Schedule: Workers' compensation and benefits; title: Chapter 7. Sexual harassment; title: 1. Introduction: what is sexual harassment?; title: 2. Employer response; title: 3. Summation; title: Schedule: Sample employer harassment policy; title: Chapter 8. Disability during employment; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Government disability coverage; title: 3. Employer sick leave and disability coverage; title: 4. Frustration of contract; title: 5. Human rights; title: 6. Topical disabilities; title: 7. Employee abuse of disability coverage; title: 8. Dismissal of disabled employees; title: Chapter 9. Privacy in the workplace; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act; title: 3. Summation; title: Part III: Termination; title: Chapter 10. Dismissal with cause; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Onus of proof and strandard of proof; title: 3. Grounds for termination; title: 4. Special case employees; title: 5. Condonation; title: 6. The charter and employee termination; title: 7. Summation: points to remember; title: Chapter 11. Dismissal without cause; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Reasonable notice; title: 3. Statutory notice and severance pay; title: 4. Express termination provisions; title: 5. Fixed-term employment contracts; title: 6. Constructive dismissal; title: 7. Independent contractual relationships; title: 8. Summation; title: Schedule A: Statutory notice and severance obligations; title: Schedule B: Sample termination grid; title: Chapter 12. Remedies; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Basic entitlement; title: 3. Aggravated damages; title: 4. Damages arising from employer misconduct; title: 5. Notable provisos; title: 6. Withholding tax and "sheltering" termination pay; title: 7. Statutory remedies; title: 8. Other remedies; title: 9. Structuring termination packages; title: Schedule A: Selected court decisions; title: aggravated and punitive damages; title: Schedule B: Sample termination letter for salary continuance with statutory severance and bonus; title: Schedule C: Sample termination letter for salary continuation with bonus; title: Schedule D: Sample termination letter for lump-sum payment; title: Schedule E: Sample release for salary continuance; title: Schedule F: Sample release for lump-sum payment; title: Chapter 13: Post-employment obligations; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Duty of confidentiality; title: 3. The fiduciary obligation; title: 4. Summation; title: Index.