Malemployed? This question kicks off the popular website PleaseFireMe.com. Entertaining, funny, and sometimes groan-worthy, PleaseFireMe.com provides an anonymous outlet for employees who are frustrated with their co-workers, supervisors, bosses and customers. Posters leave anonymous messages describing their employment frustrations, for example: “Please fire me. My supervisor recently asked me to stop being so proactive.” Company…
Richard Lister of Lewis Silkin LLP (the UK member of Ius Laboris of which Heenan Blaikie is the Canadian member firm) has posted this article at Global Employment Law: How old should airline pilots be before they’re made to retire? That was the central question in a case brought by German pilots against the airline Lufthansa…
The Ontario provincial election is scheduled for October 6, 2011. While labour and employment law issues are unlikely to be the hot button election issue that “gravy” was in Toronto’s most recent municipal election, the major parties have all included labour and employment law issues in their party platforms. We often consider how promises made…