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This week, we're re-capping our most-read stories of 2024. Grab your beverage of choice, catch up on what your peers have been reading, and reflect on the lessons you want to take into 2025. Wishing you a healthy, happy and prosperous year ahead.
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10. Fired New Brunswick hospital CEO awarded $2 million, including damages for manner of dismissal

Treating employees in a callous or insensitive way when firing them can be a costly mistake for employers. The government of New Brunswick learned this the hard way after it was ordered to pay $200,000 in aggravated damages to Dr. John Doran, the former CEO of Horizon Health Network.


9. B.C. court decision a ‘significant win’ for parental rights, commissioner says

A recent court decision about workplace discrimination involving the mother of a young child is “a significant win for gender equality,” British Columbia’s human rights commissioner said.


8. RBC’s CEO raises alarm bells over productivity, innovation with hybrid work: ‘We likely need more people back’

The rise of remote work has led to productivity, innovation and workplace culture challenges, according to David McKay, the president and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).


7. Is a neurodivergent worker on your team struggling? You might be the problem

If there is a neurodivergent employee on your team who is struggling, you just might be the problem. Odds are, you have someone on your team who is classified as neurodivergent. By one count, there are about 600,000 neurodivergent adults in Canada. Other estimates peg the number at about 15 per cent to 20 per cent of the population.


6. What is LockBit, the malicious software used against Indigo, SickKids?

LockBit is both a cyberattack group and a malicious software used to carry out criminal attacks.


5. How to rewire your brain towards positive thinking

How many negative thoughts do you think you have a day? The more negative thoughts, the more efficient your brain gets at creating them.


4. TELUS launches Indigenous Wellness Benefit for employees

TELUS has launched an Indigenous Wellness Benefit for its employees. The new benefit “provides coverage up to $1,000 to access traditional healing practices and support total well-being,” the company said in a LinkedIn post.


3. Does daylight savings affect employee pay?

When Daylight Savings ends in the fall, employers run the risk of underpaying employees and breaking work time rules as workers end up working an extra hour in their shift. However, when daylight savings begins employees will work one hour less. This raises the question of whether employees still get paid for all their scheduled hours.


2. Five GO Transit drivers, fired for crude WhatsApp chats, awarded jobs back as arbitrator criticizes biased investigation

Five GO Transit bus drivers in Ontario, who were terminated by Metrolinx for making derogatory and crude sexual comments about their female colleagues in a private WhatsApp group chat, have been reinstated with back pay and no loss of seniority.


1. Five common misconceptions around vacation law in Canada

The rules surrounding vacation time and vacation pay are some of the most complicated, but least understood, part of employment law in Canada.