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Mindset Mastery & How ‘Mental Fitness’ Impacts Employment Relationships ・ Fire Away Episode 85

Bekhor Management’s Mindset Mastery is a crash course in mental fitness, designed to improve work performance, professional relationships and wellness in the workplace. Sandra Bekhor and Mark Edgar join Stuart to discuss mental fitness strategies that can improve employment relationships. 

Guests:

Sandra Bekhor
Practice Management Coach
Bekhor Management
www.bekhor.ca

Mark Edgar
Co-founder
future foHRward  
www.futurefohrward.com
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At Rudner Law, we see employment relationships as an extension of your interpersonal ones. This is true regardless of whether you are an employee, a multi-national corporation, a start-up, a family business or a non-profit organization. We recognize that interpersonal relationships are complicated. This is why we focus all our energy and resources into mastering the practice of Employment Law, also referred to as HR or Workplace Law. Our lawyers have substantial knowledge, expertise and experience in Employment law and pride themselves in focusing on the practical and business concerns of our clients. But we make sure that we look beyond just the law and work with our clients to help them make well-reasoned decisions based on all the relevant factors.

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www.rudnerlaw.ca

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Disability Benefits & Employment Law: What You Need to Know • Fire Away S7E07

Stuart is joined by Andrew Elias, a Toronto partner at Lerners Personal Injury LLC, for a discussion on the overlapping issues between disability benefits and employment law.

Frequently Asked Questions with A Canadian Business Owner/Employer • Fire Away S7E03

Stuart is joined by Mark Robins, a Canadian business owner and employer, to answer some frequently asked questions that are top of mind right now in Canadian employment law. 

Fire Away: Workplace TikTok trends from an employment law perspective.

Quiet quitting. Rage applying. You've heard them all - but what do these buzzwords mean, if anything, in a legal context? In this episode, Brittany Taylor and Geoffrey Lowe are explaining these trendy concepts from an employment law perspective. 

 

If you think you might need an employment lawyer, you probably do. Visit www.rudnerlaw.ca to learn more.

You’re Fired! The Webinar.

Originally presented on May 10th 2023

An overview of dismissals - with cause, without cause, and constructive - so you can understand your rights and adopt a strategic approach.

Topics include:

- Why are most termination clauses in employment contracts not worth the paper they are printed on?

- When can you "fire" someone for just cause?

- Is severance really a month of salary per year of service?

- Are you entitled to bonuses even after dismissal?

Dismissals remain the most misunderstood area of HR Law, and yet it is also the most dangerous. Getting it wrong can expose an organization to substantial liability and can cause someone to lose out on tens of thousands of dollars. Despite that, most people and organizations don't get proper advice, choosing to act before they understand their rights and obligations and costing themselves a lot by doing so.

We will explain how to assess severance obligations and post-termination entitlements, how to minimize termination costs, when just cause for dismissal exists, and how you can dismiss someone without meaning to by changing the terms of their employment. You will find out why we say that although the threshold is high, "just cause is not a lost cause".

Lastly, attendees will learn why we say that the majority of termination clauses in Ontario are unenforceable, and how to ensure that you can rely on yours.

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Employers should not use performance improvement plans in bad faith.

This update, which was supposed to be Stuart's latest rant, focuses on performance improvement plans and why employers shouldn't use them in bad faith, just to build a file for dismissal or cut compensation - these are recipes for liability.

Fire Away: Managing performance and motivation, and setting ourselves up for success.

Stuart Rudner is joined by Cameron Atlas, a talented musician, fantastic speaker and highly sought-after coach, for an insightful discussion on performance and motivation.

Time Theft - Nadia on 580 CFRA Ottawa Now with Kristy Cameron

It might be the start of a new year, but several employers are still relying on the modern-day clock for evaluating productivity. Nadia joined Ottawa Now with Kristy Cameron to talk about time theft.

Originally aired January 30th 2023.
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Fire Away: Downsize without the downside.

How can employers navigate downsizing and layoffs with low or no risk? Stuart is joined by Frank Newman and Brian Epstein of Newman HR. They're going to be talking you through downsizing and layoffs and discussing how to navigate these situations safely as an employer to limit your risk.

Using technology to conduct virtual dismissals.

Nadia talks about using technology to conduct virtual dismissals - like using Zoom to fire a worker who is remote, hybrid, or even on leave.