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PART 1: BEGINNING THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP 1. Employment Background Checks Primer 2. Requesting Birth Certificates and Driver's Licences Prior to Interviews 3. Inducement during Recruitment PART 2: THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP 4. Leaves under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 5. Occupational Health and Safety Awareness Training 6. Bill 168: Violence and Harassment in the Workplace 7. Bill 132: Sexual Violence and Harassment in the Workplace 8. Bill 18: The Stronger Workplaces for a Stronger Economy Act 9. Employee Privacy with Respect to Medical Information 10. Obtaining Production of Employee Personal Cell Phone Records 11. Employee's Right to Privacy on Workplace Computers 12. Searches in the Workplace – What Employers Need to Know 13. Random Drug and Alcohol Testing in the Workplace 14. The Scope of an Employer's Duty to Accommodate 15. The Availability of Tort Claims for Employees 16. Guidelines on Discrimination on the Basis of Mental Health 17. Employer Obligations with Respect to Assignment Employees 18. Unpaid Interns 19. Dependent Contractors 20. The Poisonous Work Environment PART 3: ENDING THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP 21. Terminating an Employee for Just Cause: Dishonesty 22. Terminating an Employee for Just Cause: Absenteeism and Lateness 23. Terminating an Employee for Just Cause: Incompetency 24. Terminating an Employee for Just Cause: Employee Complaint Letter 25. Terminating an Employee for Just Cause: Social Media 26. Terminating an Employee for Just Cause: Facebook Posts 27. Terminating an Employee for Just Cause: Employer Circumstances and Potential for Harm 28. The Significance of Progressive Discipline and the Duty to Act Honestly in the Manner of Dismissal 29. Honesty, Good Faith and Constructive Dismissal 30. Severing Executive Ties 31. Frustration of Contract Due to an Employee's Illness 32. Termination Clauses and Employee's Duty to Mitigate 33. Fixed Term Contracts and Employee's Duty to Mitigate 34. Employers can be Held Liable for Long-Term Disability Benefits 35. Make Sure Your Release Stands Up in Court 36. Human Rights Damages in Wrongful Dismissal Cases PART 4: PRACTICAL TIPS 37. Keeping in Line on Overtime 38. Do You Really Need to Conduct an Investigation? 39. How to Limit Employer Liability during the Holiday Season 40. Employers Should Assess Workplace Violence Plans 41. Defining the "Workplace" Under the Occupational Health & Safety Act 42. Is the Flu a Disability under the Human Rights Code? 43. The Tort of Intrusion upon Seclusion may Impact Employers 44. Psychological Disorders 45. Court Casts Doubt on the Enforceability of Standard Termination Clauses 46. Facebook Post Breaches Confidentiality Agreement 47. Breaching a Non-Compete Does not Nullify a Settlement 48. Non-Solicitation Clauses 49. Imperfections of a Notice Period