David MacClausland Law is a Toronto law firm focused on employment and workplace issues facing employees in the healthcare field. David provides full employment legal services to our clients including
- evaluate whether there has been a wrongful termination
- assess for human rights issues
- review termination packages, including severance payments
- review work contracts as employees begin new employment, ensuring, for example, that proper severance is included as a term of the contract
- prepare work contracts
Recent Articles…
How Nurses Can Act Against Workplace Violence
What are nurses looking for when they head to work each day? A chance to care for fellow human beings in their time of need, to exercise state-of-the-art skills, to bring meaning to their own lives and to earn a paycheck.
What are nurses not looking for? To be elbowed, slapped, punched, kicked, verbally abused, even shot or raped. But that’s what happened to nurses and other workers in hospitals across the land. And that’s not counting the hundreds of attacks on nurses that go unreported.
These assaults may be the result of criminal intent or the climax of an emotional reaction fueled by mental illness, drugs or alcohol. Indeed, “in some communities where behavioral healthcare isn’t available, the hospital is the recipient of every social ill that’s out there,” says Richard Wade, senior vice president of communications for the American Hospital Association.
What happens to an employee when a business closes or they’re given working notice?
In my employment law practice, I continue to receive many questions from employees about their rights when their employer goes out of business, such as entitlements to severance and vacation pay. Here are the answers to some of employees’ most commonly asked questions when the company they work for shuts its doors.
You are entitled to full severance pay if your employer closes the business and you lose your job unless the company files for bankruptcy or goes into receivership.
In 2021, I was contacted by a significant number of employees
who had been laid off and were not given legally appropriate severance packages, in the process. The parent company, however, was still active and financially secure. Even though the company that dismissed the employees had ceased operations, we were still able to secure proper severance. Read more…
We strictly focus on employee issues but should you be an employer seeking attorney support for employment or labour issues we recommend…
Hyde HR Law is a well established law firm handling employer-focused employment and labour law in Toronto. The can help with matters including
- investigations
- the creation or review of employment contracts
- mediations
- conflict resolution training
- legal media management