Closing Comments

• Author: Paul Wearing
• Pages: 157-157

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CHAPTER TWENTY

Closing Comments

The employment relationship is complex, impacted by human nature,

workplace laws and regulations, court decisions, and administrative tribu-

nal policy interpretations and applications. Forty years’ experience before

the courts and workplace tribunals have informed and reinforced one

simple principle of workplace management in the writer: management

policies will not be enforced by adjudicators unless those policies are

reasonable, transparent, in writing, communicated, and even-handedly

applied to all members of the workforce. The preceding pages are an

attempt to give the layperson entrepreneur or business owner a “heads-

up” insight into basic Ontario workplace laws and the interpretation of

those laws by the courts and workplace administrative tribunals, with a

view to raising awareness of the parameters of workplace management.

Mistakes in employee management can be extremely costly in terms of

money, time, and morale. Proactive management of the workforce is

mandatory for a successful business.