Segregation of duties and accounts payable
Segregation of duties strengthens internal controls. Accounts payable or AP is one of the easiest channels for an organization to lose money if internal controls are weak. The AP department’s responsibility to monitor, process, and control payments to creditors is essential to avoiding improper payments. If there is no segregation of duties, internal controls are likely to be weak. If internal controls are weak, the risk of errors and improper payments increases.
Apolone Gentles, JD, CPA,CGA, FCCA, Bsc (Hons)
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April 6, 2022 
Old non-compete agreements are still valid in Ontario
The Working for Workers Act, 2021 (the “WWA”) passed into law on December 2, 2021. One of its more notable aspects was to ban the use of non-compete agreements in Ontario. Non-compete agreements restrict how workers may conduct themselves both during and after employment. Most importantly, they can prevent employees from working at competing businesses for long periods (often for several months or years) after the employee’s job has ended.
Vey Willetts LLP
What is bad faith in a termination?
Terminating an employee is tough. The conversation in which the employer provides the employee with notice of termination can be awkward. Given how difficult terminations are, for both the employer and the employee, courts hold employers “to an obligation of good faith and fair dealing in the manner of dismissal.”
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Employer obligations to the deceased employee
Outside of grieving, it is important to ask and consider: what obligations does an employer have when an employee dies to ensure that the deceased’s employment is wrapped up properly?
Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation
How minimum wage increases affects employers and businesses
Minimum wage is the lowest wage rate that an employer can legally pay its employees and is seen as a core labour standard to which employers must abide by. With the effects of inflation, especially the cost of living consistently increasing across Canada, it is inevitable for the minimum wage in each province to rise.
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Accommodating needs, not preferences
The circumstances that an employer must accommodate continue to expand. After all, the workplace is no longer what it used to be. So, where does the duty to accommodate come from?
Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation
5 ways employers can provide a work-life balanced environment
The term “Work-life balance” is frequently used to describe a trade-off between work and life responsibilities and or goals. You balance the amount time spent on work-related tasks versus time spent with family, friends, and personal interests.
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Old age and the duty to mitigate loss
Employment lawyers spend a lot of time thinking about age. A worker’s age can have a myriad of implications, ranging from available training opportunities to the impact of different generational norms. Age is also frequently a focus in wrongful dismissal litigation. The seminal decision of Bardal v. Globe & Mail Ltd., 1960 CanLII 294 (ON SC) specifies that a worker’s age is one of the key components that must be assessed when determining dismissal entitlements.
Vey Willetts LLP
Are “mutual separations” a real thing?
We all know that when a couple describes their break-up as “mutual” we are likely not getting the full picture. Can the same be said of employment relationships that end mutually?
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