In essence, Google is leveling up, setting higher expectations for employees to achieve or risk lower performance ratings and presumably other consequences like lower bonuses or termination.
Here is a highlight reel of some of the most important developments of the year in employment law:
Holiday parties can, however, be a hotbed for workplace problems without some active planning and forethought. This is especially the case this year when parties have been reintroduced by many companies for the first time after the pandemic.
To qualify, employees need only be employed for 30 days prior to Dec. 31 in order to earn their first three paid sick days. From there, each month starting Feb. 1, 2023, continuously-employed federally-regulated employees will earn a paid sick day each month to a maximum of 10 days in 2023.
Most terminated employees wonder if their severance packages are fair or if they could be entitled to more. At common law, the legal test requires that terminated employees try to mitigate their damages by looking for another job. Employees have always been required to look for similar jobs at similar rates of pay.
Keeping his foot on the gas, the platform’s new CEO Elon Musk issued an ultimatum via email to remaining employees: to either commit to an “extremely hardcore” environment going forward or accept a severance package.
One argument is that Lemieux’s prosthetics are too sexualized for a school environment. The other is that a school should not opine on the appearance of their staff and that people should be free to appear and present themselves in a fashion they deem fit.
At its core, the CUPE strike is about basic things all employees care about. Most of us care about how much money we make, if there is a raise in our future and our working conditions. This strike will be marked by CUPE’s ask for an 11.7% wage increase for its membership across the board.
Not only that, losing a job in the last few years made reemployment particularly challenging. There was a constant threat of another lockdown or another vaccine mandate and economic downturn.
If true, Musk will cull Twitter by 5,000 employees, leaving a skeleton staff of approximately 2,000 to run the social media company. Slashing a workforce in this cavalier manner is not only unlikely, but it would also undoubtedly cripple the operations of the company.
