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You did what?

Sometimes the stress of cash flow, business planning and the general day to day grind of people’s jobs can lead to some really bad decisions. Generally the really bad decisions are ones that are made quickly or out of an emotional response, rather than a business response. The business decisions that people struggle with are

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Privacy in the Workplace – the Importance of Good Policies

On Tuesday, the Ontario Court of Appeal handed down its decision in R. v. Cole and in so doing, offered some much-needed clarity on the issue of employee privacy rights in the workplace.  The Cole case dealt with a high school teacher who was found (by a school board IT technician) to have sexually explicit

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Crisis Management

Recent events in Japan offer many lessons for those prepared to learn them; among them, the importance of preparedness.  The laws of probability dictate that on a long enough timeline, anything that can possibly go wrong, will go wrong.  The question is when, not if.  Some things we can usually predict within a few decades,

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Jamming – Not the Bob Marley Kind

I was reading an article the other day about the proliferation of GPS technology; specifically, how those wonderful satellites sitting in geosynchronous orbit around the Earth do so much more than tell our cars how to get to where we’re going.  The time signals they emit tell our mobile phones which cell towers to talk

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WINNING! How to handle an employee with Tiger blood and Adonis DNA

Many business owners reading the entertainment news this week, and possibly following @CharlieSheen on twitter (not that anyone in our firm would do that) may be asking themselves “what would I do if I had an employee who was behaving in a similar fashion?” The law in Canada is very different than the law in

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Not to sound like an accountant …. but

It’s almost February 28, have you prepared all of the T4s for your employees? Leave aside the obligations under the Income Tax Act, employees who are expecting a refund will appreciate getting T4s sooner than later. As a Business Law Firm, reminding clients of “small things” like T4s is part of what we do because

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Andriessen & Associates

Is a Business law firm located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We are experienced lawyers who provide one stop Business legal advice, from drafting documents to aggressive litigation. Most of our services are on a flat fee basis, to allow Businesses to budget for legal work.

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