With so many employers conducting mass layoffs and terminations since the past year, it’s important for companies to know how to do these things right.
In a Canadian HR Reporter webinar titled “Managing Terminations and Minimizing Legal Exposure,” Ozlem Yucel, employment lawyer and partner at Turnpenney Milne LLP, shared the risks associated with poorly executed terminations and how employers can improve the way they approach it.
“A poorly executed termination can have a significant impact on a workplace. A termination that’s not conducted properly can lead to legal risk,” she says. “Employers who do not conduct terminations properly can be ordered to pay additional compensation to employees.”