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How to Conduct an Effective Workplace Investigation

February 26, 2014 | Dealing with Difficult Employees|Work Environment and Policies

You’ve just received a complaint from one of your employees that feels he is being bullied by his manager.  What do you do?  This article describes the 5 key components to an effective workplace investigation.

Is it harassment?

February 03, 2014 | Dealing with Difficult Employees|Work Environment and Policies

Harassment.  It’s a word that is bandied around quite a bit but do we really understand what it actually means?

Verbal Threats in the Workplace Considered Serious Offence under Bill 168

March 06, 2012 | Work Environment and Policies

Workplace violence includes statements or behaviours “that [are] reasonable for a worker to interpret as a threat to exercise physical force against the worker, in a workplace, that could cause physical injury to the worker.” (Section 1(c) Bill 168).  This definition was recently put to the test in a landmark arbitration decision in Kingston, ON whereby the arbitrator upheld the employer’s decision to terminate the employment of a veteran employee, with 28 years of service, for verbally threatening her co-worker; in this case, the Union President.