Dan Price, CEO of Seattle-based payment processing company Gravity Payments, last week announced that he was taking a 90% pay cut to raise the minimum wage of his employees to $70,000 a year. Salaries more than doubled for some of the firm’s lowest-paid employees and the story went viral.
$70,000 is significantly higher than the US national minimum wage of $17,000 a year, but the episode highlights a broader unease about wages for the low […]
Non-unionized employees are entitled to “reasonable notice” of termination under the common law, or pay in lieu of such notice. The only exceptions are if an employee is employed on a fixed term, has a defined contractual entitlement on termination or just cause exists for termination.
Employee entitlements to reasonable notice at common law are not based on a formula, but by a case-by-case assessment of various factors, such as length of service, age, nature […]
Further to the myriad of changes that have affected Canada’s Temporary Worker Program in the last few years, it appears that we still haven’t seen the end. This change impacts LMIA applications.
Effective April 30, a new method of identifying employer requirements to recruit foreign workers will be implemented. This change was contemplated previously (with the June 2014 amendments), but it is only set to come into force now.
Until now, under the post-June 2014 scheme, […]