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Employment Law and the Workplace…

Employment Law and the Workplace…. Presented By: Tanya Ziat Daniel Sterescu. O bjectives. By the end of this presentation, you will have learned… 1. Your rights at work 2. How terminations work 3. Implications of using Social Media during work and your spare time. Q uick Overview.

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Employment Law and the Workplace…

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  1. Employment Law and the Workplace… Presented By: Tanya Ziat Daniel Sterescu

  2. Objectives By the end of this presentation, you will have learned… • 1. Your rights at work • 2. How terminations work • 3. Implications of using Social Media during work and your spare time.

  3. Quick Overview Relevant Employment Statutes: • The Employment Standards Act, 2000 • The Human Rights Code • The Labour Relations Act, 1995 • The Occupational Health and Safety Act • The Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 • The Pay Equity Act

  4. Your rights at work… • 30-minute eating period • 1½ times your regular rate of pay (“time and a half)”, after 44 hours a week • 10 Emergency Days Your employer must give you at least: • 11 consecutive hours off work each day • 8 hours off work between shifts • 24 consecutive hours off work each work week, or 48 consecutive hours off every two work weeks. Maximum Daily Hours of Work • You do not have to work more than 8 hours a day Maximum Weekly Hours of Work • You do not have to work more than 48 hours a week.

  5. Show Me the Money…

  6. Human Rights • 1. Race • 2. Ancestry • 3. Place of origin • 4. Colour • 5. Ethnic origin • 6. Citizenship • 7. Creed • 8. Record of offences • 9. Marital status • 10. Family status • 11. Disability • 12. Sex • 13. Sexual Orientation • 14.Age

  7. Employment Equity • Canadian term to replace American notion of “affirmative action”

  8. Employment Equity vs Affirmative Action • EE measures include: making recruitment, hiring, compensation and promotions more equitable; creating accessible workplaces • Affirmative action – is an American term where it is meeting quotas rather than trying to meet equality. Is also set to remove barriers.

  9. Employment Equity vs Affirmative Action • Employment equity - attempts to redress systemic issues and create a representative workforce. • Looks at jobs and the compensation system • Removal of barriers, special programs, data collection, has a different approach based on individual corporation. • EE is designed to reduce occupational segregation by facilitating the employment of 4 groups, deals with the problem by using a proactive solution.

  10. Pay Equity • Equal pay for work of equal value

  11. Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications • Honest belief that it is necessary to satisfy legitimate business purpose • Employer must show it was impossible to accommodate without creating undue hardship • Examples?

  12. Terminations with Cause/Just Cause • An employer is justified in terminating an employee without providing reasonable Notice or payment instead of the notice, if: • Dishonesty (serious misconduct, i.e. Theft, Fraud) • Insolence and Insubordination (Assault and or Harassment) • Incompatibility (VERY vague, usually does not hold up in court) • Off-Duty Conduct (harmed employers business or reputation) • Disobedience (Progressive discipline first) • Absenteeism and Lateness (Chronic) • Sexual Harassment • Intoxication • Substance Abuse (BE VERY CAREFUL) • Incompetence (This is difficult to prove)

  13. Terminations • 3 Things to remember… • Pay in Lieu of Notice • Notice of Severance • Working for 5+ years, 2.5 million payroll, or 50+ layoffs • 1 week pay for each year of service, max of 26 weeks • 3. Severance • 4. Release

  14. ESA (Ontario)

  15. Determining Severance (without cause) • 1. Age • 2. Position • 3. Length of Service • Level of Compensation • Availability of Similar Employment (How re-employable are you?)

  16. What Constitutes Constructive Dismissal? • 1. Changes to compensation package • 2. Changing in Duties of the position • 3. Geographic Relocation • 4. Changes in Hours and Scheduling • 5. Layoffs • 6. Untenable work environment (i.e. failure to protect from harassment)

  17. Quit • Emotional Quit “Cool Off” period 24-hrs

  18. “Intrusion Upon Seclusion”… aka Invasion of Privacy • The Court ruled that it is time for the law to move forward and recognize the need to protect people from unreasonable intrusion into their private lives by recognizing a new free-standing tort called Intrusion Upon Seclusion.

  19. Social Media

  20. Will you Be fired? • http://fireme.l3s.uni-hannover.de/fireme.php

  21. Social Media Scenarios • A company provides Internet access at home to certain employees. • After a few months the company notices a sharp increase in the amount of time a particular employee is spending on the Internet.

  22. Social Media Example • It can even happen to me…

  23. Recent Examples of Social Media Terminations • Caitlin Davis was fired from her job cheerleading for the New England Patriots when a photo of her surfaced on Facebook. She appears next to a passed-out partygoer who's been covered in phallic symbols, swastikas, and the phrase "I'm a Jew." • She also has a Sharpie in her hand.

  24. Recent Examples of Social Media Terminations •  Connor Riley was offered a job at Cisco. Her first instinct - to tweet about her new opportunity • "Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work." • Cisco replied... 

  25. Recent Examples of Social Media Terminations • "Who is the hiring manager," the Twitter sleuth wrote. "I’m sure they would love to know that you will hate the work. We here at Cisco are versed in the web." 

  26. Recent Examples of Social Media Terminations

  27. Recent Examples of Social Media Terminations • US Airways • Unfortunately, the pornographic image went on full display within the tweet. Thus, all of the 420,000 followers of US Airways’ Twitter account saw it. • Because it was an honest mistake, the airline said it won’t fire the employee who posted the controversial tweet.

  28. Recent Examples of Social Media Terminations • Nathalie Blanchard had been living off of disability insurance for depression since 2008. But when Manulife, the Canadian insurance company making the payments,  got into her Facebook page, they saw her "relaxing at the beach, hanging out at a Chippendale's-style club, and generally having a lot of fun." • She immediately lost her insurance benefits.

  29. Recent Examples of Social Media Terminations • Sister Maria Jesus Galan was asked to leave the Santo Domigo el Real Convent Toledo, Spain, because she was spending too much time on Facebook. Fellow nuns said that her Facebook activity “made life impossible.” • This all after she used the computer to digitize the convent's archives and help handle banking over the Internet.

  30. Occupational Health and Safety • The right to Participate • Join Safety committees, help develop policies • The right to know • The right to refuse

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