Paid or unpaid leave to care or support a gravely ill family member.
When an employer, rather than acting directly, deliberately makes an employee's working conditions so intolerable that the employee is forced into resignation.
A person who has agreed by contract to perform specified services for another, the employer, in exchange for money.
The forfeiture of a departing employee's right to judicial review of a restrictive covenant if that employee agreed voluntarily to receive post-employment benefits as consideration for the covenant.
An employment contract during which the employer may terminate the employment at any time subject only to the reason not being contrary to public policy.
Entirely a creation of statute; minimum employee rights extended for work within the jurisdiction served by the relevant statute.
A claim by a union or a unionized employee that a collective bargaining agreement has been breached.
The resolution of a dispute as to an alleged violation of a term of a collective bargaining agreement, by arbitration.
A pattern of ongoing and persistent harassment severe enough to alter the conditions of employment.
Employment law: misconduct of an employee, or some other event relevant to the employee, which justifies the immediate termination of the employment contract.
The lowest allowable rate of pay as established by statute.
A legal test against which restrictive covenants are judged as either acceptable or not.
A private or government fund (or payments therefrom), from which intermittent and regular benefits or allowances are paid to a person upon his or her retirement or disability.
Workplace harassment which conditions employment or promotion on sexual favors.
Latin: let the principal answer.
A Canadian legal principle applicable in employment law which holds an employer to the reasons for a dismissal expressed at the time of dismissal, and prohibiting the attempt to later advance other reasons.
An amount of money an employer owes to an employee in lieu of notice, in exchange for the employee's agreement to sever an employment contract forthwith.
An employee with limited management discretion or responsibilities.
The name of an American federal labor law which sought to equalize legal responsibilities of labor organizations and employers; i.e., balance the Wagner Act, which, it was felt, may have gone to far in protecting union rights.
A place of employment where only union members are employed or persons who must join a specified union within a certain deadline.
Compensation for work or services.
A public benefit scheme in which qualified workers who are injured in the workplace, receive compensation, commensurate with their degree of injury, regardless of fault.