the firm

FYI
Basic Common Knowledge Fundamentals for the Office
(written with conviction and honest concern)

It is illegal to hire on the bases of sex, ethnicity, color, religion, or attractiveness.
equality rights protect people from discrimination based on race, country of origin, religion, colour, sex, age and mental or physical disability.
It is not acceptable to talk about 'white people' ‘black people’
Equal pay
6(1) Where employees of both sexes perform the same or substantially similar work for an employer in an establishment the employer shall pay the employees at the same rate of pay.
Discrimination re employment practices
7(1) No employer shall
(a) refuse to employ or refuse to continue to employ any person, or
(b) discriminate against any person with regard to employment or any term or condition of employment,
because of the race, religious beliefs, colour, gender, physical disability, mental disability, age, ancestry, place of origin, marital status, source of income or family status of that person or of any other person.
(2) Subsection (1) as it relates to age and marital status does not affect the operation of any bona fide retirement or pension plan or the terms or conditions of any bona fide group or employee insurance plan.
It is illegal to ask someone to come in to work for less than 3 hours and to pay them for less than 3 hours.
It is illegal to close an office for a week and not pay your staff for the week that it is closed, under the pretense that the office is not actually closed, but encouraging (forcing/ pressuring) your employees not to work.
It is illegal to not pay overtime after 44 hours a week:
Overtime hours
21 Overtime hours in respect of a work week are
(a) the total of an employee’s hours of work in excess of 8 on each work day in the work week, or
(b) an employee’s hours of work in excess of 44 hours in the work week,
whichever is greater, and, if the hours in clauses (a) and (b) are the same, the overtime hours are those common hours.
It is unacceptable as an employer to discuss employees with other employees in a degrading way or to speak and swear in a loud abrasive manor about a staff member that you the employer deem as unworthy of respect.
It is wrong to assume that if someone calls in sick that it is because they have no integrity and are telling a lie.
It is wrong to assume that if someone is not sneezing/coughing that they are not sick. It is unwise to forget that people may have other physical concerns ie. migraines/ PMS/ Cancer/ Stress/ Family issues/ Diarrhea.
It is politically incorrect to whisper about an employee.
It is politically incorrect and wrong to ask one employee to spy and record information about another employee, namely their superior.
It is wrong to say things like “let’s make it look like white people work here”.
It is wrong to not give an employee the benefit of Notice of Termination and/or Pay in Lieu when the company decides to restructure. It is wrong to try and phase/pressure them out instead.
It is not politically correct to discuss your financial status and/or toys/investments/cars/homes/shopping malls to clients/staff/tenants etc.
It is embarrassing for the Boss to complain about the cost of paper napkins at board meetings.
It is inefficient to have inconsistency with decision making. ie. photocopy machines/party planning/invite lists/ hiring/firing/purchasing. It leads to distrust for employees trying to work within the roving framework.
It is not politically correct to discuss your present or future employees’ marital status in such a way that you undermine the character of the said member.
It is wrong to make derogatory comments about women in front and around your female employees.
It is wrong to sift through your employees private things, ie. a book labeled with their name on it.
It is unacceptable as an employer to drop paper on the floor in front of your receptionist and expect that she pick it up, it is unacceptable to continue to do this with the expectation that she will pick it up. It is unacceptable after she asks you the Boss to stop this behavior that you tell her that she needs the exercise.
It is wrong to hire someone under false pretenses ie. job description.
It is wrong once someone gives their notice to leave your company to than make comments that you are going to work them to the bone etc.
It is wrong to make comments to employees that you wish people applying for a job would send their picture with their resume.
A company of 20 plus staff should have staff meetings at least every 6 months, staff should have incentive to commit and continue with their company especially when responsibilities increase and other staff leave.