Sentences with phrase «vulnerable employees»

A court may impose a significantly higher punitive damage award if it is found that the employer followed a policy or practice of attempting to exploit vulnerable employees.

Not good for the paralegals, vulnerable employees placed at greater risk of layoffs in an economic storm.

The case demonstrates the trend of courts and arbitrators to protect more vulnerable employees, such as women working in traditionally male - dominated roles, says Meighan Ferris - Miles of Shields O'Donnell MacKillop LLP.

... the conduct by [Honda] was planned and deliberate and designed to intimidate and ultimately terminate the employment of a particularly vulnerable employee.

While some of the changes are acknowledged as positive for protecting vulnerable employees, some immigration lawyers say there needs to be more risk management applied to the process or it will pose a «big impediment to business.»

Employee benefits and expenses - simplification must not come at the cost of fairness for vulnerable employees

This nightmare is aided and abetted by Chairman Peter Booth Wiley and his entourage, who engage vulnerable employees in the literary equivalent of trench warfare.

Eroding pension plans by shifting risk onto vulnerable employees and retirees with limited ability to absorb income cuts is quite in keeping with the Harper government's determination to lower the boom on public sector workers and improve the profitability of their corporate friends in the private sector.

But she is wary about the future effects of Fraser particularly on vulnerable employees, when it comes to bargaining power, calling the «good faith» standard set by the court «a minimalist option.»

Bill 18, the Stronger Workplaces for a Stronger Economy Act, introduced a number of measures to protect the more vulnerable employees.

suggesting that this is the situation employees — particularly vulnerable employees — will face when they make claims of unpaid wages (and other things) against their employers.

MacPherson J.A. in Ceccol v. Ontario Gymnastic Federation 2001 CanLII 8589 (ON CA), (2001), 55 O.R. (3d) 614 (C.A.) recapitulated that the common law should be interpreted to protect vulnerable employees.

In the case of Distribute.IT, the hackers identified a vulnerable employee, installed a key logging malware on the employee's computer and then used the laptop's secure VPN connection to access the network.

But paralegals could also assist these vulnerable employees even more through provision of legal services to employers to help them better comply with the Code.

In an important line of cases in recent years, the Supreme Court of Canada has discussed often, with genuine eloquence, the role work plays in a person's life, the imbalance in many employer - employee relationships and the desirability of interpreting legislation and the common law to provide a measure of protection to vulnerable employees: [references omitted].

The Court noted that the case before it was not a situation in which a vulnerable employee was being treated unfairly; rather, the employee was sophisticated, had independent legal advice before entering into the agreement, and had bargained over its terms.

The downside is that it makes it more difficult for employers to know how to fulfil their duties to vulnerable employees.

The key point that emerges from Barber is that this is a general positive duty to take steps to be aware of the pressures on employees, not one which only applies where the employer is aware of a vulnerable employee.

The House of Lords has now established that employers must be on «suicide watch» with stressed, depressed and vulnerable employees.

Now more than ever, employers have a greater responsibility to provide a harassment free workplace and ensure that vulnerable employees are safe from abusive bosses and intolerable working environments.

Victims only slowly realise what is happening, and a vulnerable employee may put up with discrimination for months, even years, before making a complaint to a tribunal.