What are the biggest mistakes employers make? I could write five columns on this, and come up with a different Top 10 in each.

Many employees foolishly decide to save the hour or so in legal fees to have their contracts reviewed, only to then forfeit vastly greater amounts.

No one would deny employers the right to protect their interests, including expecting all employees to fulfill their duties as laid out in their employment contract.

Gary Keating has become the poster child for entitled Canadian public school teachers and an abject lesson as to the problem with public sector labour negotiations.

Professionals may now be censored by their regulators, on topics that have nothing to do with their regulated activity

Suspicion is no substitute for hard evidence.

If Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was an employee, what would be his fate?

Jian Ghomeshi’s $50-million lawsuit against the CBC has everything to do with strategy and PR — but nothing to do with legal entitlement.

Employers need not put up with exaggerated or false sick leave claims and can ultimately fire such employees for cause.

Bank employees have a higher duty of trust than the rest of us.

Many employers now have job descriptions for their employees, whether they are in the initial offer letter or in a detailed employment agreement.

In the event of litigation, this executive would have one hand tied behind his back as result of the litigation work already done under the ostensible purpose of an "investigation."

A browse through last week’s papers reveals how the disparate themes of National Post columnists reverberated with the issues my clients face.

Sex, conflict of interest, high finance, big numbers. If we could only throw in drugs and rock ‘n' roll, this story would have it all — a full sixfecta.

The threat was not taken seriously. Many thought Adolf Hitler was merely playing to an uneducated, roguish domestic audience. Not only did the Allied powers brush it off, but many Jews did as well...

Birju Dattani was a relatively unknown bureaucrat until two weeks ago. A young lawyer who had occupied only middling positions in human rights commissions and...

Two bungled sexual harassment investigations — the CBC versus Jian Ghomeshi and inside the federal Liberal party — are both playing out in the public eye at taxpayer expense.

Although women predominantly are the targets of this harassment, same sex harassment and that of men by women is rising.

As in life, the practitioners in the field of human resources too often blindly follow the folly of others, to the point it becomes collective wisdom.

Age has become the word that cannot be spoken. Workers in their fifties and sixties comfort themselves with the notion it is just a number.