People Risk
The Ontario Employer’s Guide to Employment Law, Workplace Investigations, and the Decisions That Cost the Most
Most Ontario employers do not find out what employment law requires until they are defending a decision they already made. People Risk is the guide to the decisions that cost the most, and how to get them right before the mistake is made.
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Written for the owner who is also the HR department, the operations manager who handles people issues because no one else does, and the general manager who knows they should understand this better than they do.
Who this book is for
People Risk is written in plain language for Ontario employers who do not have a dedicated HR director and do not want to learn employment law by getting sued. No legalese. No abstract theory. Each chapter is a decision an Ontario employer routinely faces, the mistake that quietly creates the liability, and the version that holds up when it is challenged.
The book reflects fifteen years of Ontario and federal labour relations practice, current case law, and the realities of what the Ministry of Labour, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, and the courts are doing today.
What is inside
Ten chapters. Each one a decision Ontario employers make every week, and the version of that decision that survives challenge.
- 1.Why Internal Workplace Investigations Backfire
- 2.The Termination Clause Trap
- 3.The Accommodation Mistake Ontario Employers Keep Making
- 4.The Harassment Policy Problem
- 5.The Progressive Discipline Myth
- 6.You Didn't Fire Them, But You Did
- 7.What You Said When You Hired Them
- 8.The Independent Contractor Problem
- 9.When the Ministry of Labour Calls
- 10.The HRTO Letter
About the author
Scott Tracze, Q.ARB, is the founder of Aegis 360 HR, a workplace investigator, and a labour relations advisor with fifteen years of Ontario and federal experience. He holds the Qualified Arbitrator designation from the ADR Institute of Ontario and advises Ontario employers on workplace investigations, compliance, accommodation, discipline, and the decisions in this book.
Aegis 360 HR is based in Belleville and serves Ontario employers province-wide. Sandy McInnes, Q.Med, and Nadia Rajah, RN MN, lead the firm’s mediation and healthcare investigation practices alongside Scott.
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