Episodes

Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
You Can’t Do That (At Work) On TV!
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Stuart Rudner and the Rudner Law Team look at some examples of workplace don'ts that you may recognize from pop culture and TV.

Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Will Smith & Chris Rock; Lessons About Workplace Violence
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Stuart is joined by Brittany Taylor for a discussion on the Will Smith/Chris Rock incident at this year's Oscars Awards and the lessons about workplace violence it brought up.

Monday Feb 07, 2022
Kyle Beach and the Chicago Blackhawks: Lessons for HR/Employers
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Stuart is joined by John Curtis and Larissa Donovan. John is a lawyer, mediator, investigator, and former Olympic athlete in the sport of sailing whose practice is focused on resolving workplace conflict. Larissa is an articling student currently working with John; she is a Board Member of the Dandelion Initiative, which focuses on survivors of sexual violence. This episode looks at the Kyle Beach sexual assault lawsuit against the Chicago Blackhawks organization, and how this case translates into lessons for HR professionals and employers.

Monday Sep 27, 2021
The New Normal? COVID-19, Workplace Harassment, and Mental Health
Monday Sep 27, 2021
Monday Sep 27, 2021
Denise Koster returns to Fire Away to talk about how COVID and remote work have changed how we see and deal with workplace harassment and mental health.
Hosted by Brittany Taylor, Partner at Rudner Law.

Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Fire Away - Refusing to Accept The Unacceptable: Workplace Bullying and Harassment
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Stuart is joined by Denise Koster, Founder and Principal of Koster Consulting and Associates, to discuss workplace bullying and harassment, and her newly published book, "Refusing to Accept the Unacceptable: The Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs of Workplace Bullying and Harassment".
Original air date: August 18th, 2020

Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
Fire Away - Employment Law and the NHL
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
In this episode of the Rudner Law Q&A series Fire Away, Stuart is joined by Dan McGarry and Peter Santini to discuss Don Cherry and the cultural shift happening in the NHL. Two of Stuart's passions - employment law and hockey!
Original air-date: February 18 2020

Friday Dec 13, 2019
Fire Away - Conducting Investigations in the Workplace
Friday Dec 13, 2019
Friday Dec 13, 2019
In this episode of the Rudner Law Q&A series Fire Away, Stuart and Eric Poirier of Argus Research Group, talk about conducting investigations in the workplace.
Original air-date: November 19 2019.

Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Fire Away Q&A Series, Question 6: Discrimination
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
In August's episode of Fire Away, Stuart tackled some of our viewers' top HR and Employment Law questions.
Question 6: What can an employee do when they feel they are being discriminated against? What if an email was sent to the manager but the response was “it’s all in your head”?

Monday Oct 21, 2019
Fire Away Q&A Series, Question 5: Investigation Results
Monday Oct 21, 2019
Monday Oct 21, 2019
In August's episode of Fire Away, Stuart tackled some of our viewers' top HR and Employment Law questions.
Question 5: who is entitled to see the results of a workplace investigation?

Friday Mar 15, 2019
Audio: Hollywood in the Aftermath of the #MeToo Movement
Friday Mar 15, 2019
Friday Mar 15, 2019
It’s now 2019, and while Me Too is part of our vocabulary now, you may not hear it every day. But that doesn’t mean that it isn’t still making news. Last Fall we wrote an article about what happens when those accused of sexual harassment try to make a comeback. At the time, comedian Louis CK was starting to perform stand up again, and Jian Ghomeshi had just published an essay only mildly accounting for his actions. We wondered what would happen when, on a larger scale, those publicly known to be accused of harassment try to return to the workplace. Now we have a better idea.