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Businesses in Alberta and Ontario that prioritize workplace health and safety can expect to receive financial benefits soon. Recently, Ontario and Alberta announced changes that’ll provide financial relief to businesses, including changes that’ll benefit those businesses that do an exceptional job of upholding workplace health and safety. British Columbia, too, has had several financial relief...

Vaccines are critical to ending the COVID-19 pandemic. But widespread misinformation about the vaccines has added to the challenge of immunizing as many people as possible against the deadly virus. To provide a safe workplace for your staff and customers, you should encourage vaccinations. However, in doing so, you are likely to encounter vaccine misinformation,...

Human rights accommodation in the workplace has been a major topic of late. Besides standard accommodation requests, businesses have been grappling with granting accommodations based on the COVID-19 vaccine. This blog discusses two protected grounds under human rights legislation in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. In addition to the rules around standard workplace accommodation, we...

Many workplaces have policies in place on what is, and what isn’t, appropriate business attire. Certain workplaces such as law firms and banks implement dress codes to ensure their staff look professional for clients. Other businesses like restaurants and retail shops may have a dress code policy that requires staff to wear uniforms while at...

*This blog was updated on December 10, 2021. If you don’t already have one in place, now may be a good time to create a vaccination policy for your workplace. Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health has strongly recommended that city employers develop a vaccination policy to protect their staff and the public. According to Regulation...