Questions tagged [canada]
Questions about the workplace that may specifically relate to cultures, customs or laws in Canada
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Dream position I cannot afford
I am a recent Law school graduate who secured an articling position in the Greater Toronto Area. After deductions and allowances, I will be earning $1840 net. I have to have a working vehicle to be ...
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Full Background check before offer, should I refuse?
I am currently living in Quebec, Canada, and in the hiring process for a company in IT/Telecoms
I had already 3 interviews, two with recruiters (they contacted me when I sent a letter to the company) ...
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Should I ask for reimbursement of unclaimable vacation prize after being terminated as severance pay?
I was just terminated from my position at a tech company in Canada. During the holiday Christmas party, I won a draw for some kind of all-inclusive vacation to be reimbursed as a taxable benefit by ...
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Can I still get paid after quiting first shift? [closed]
I lost my old job due to COVID. They had advised us to apply at a particular chain of grocery stores. I did the online application and had a very brief phone call with a recruiter. I received an email ...
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Conditions for accepting a pay cut instead of being laid off with severance
I work in a Canadian office for a large US-based company that has several offices throughout the US and Canada.
Senior management in the US has already been forced to take cuts, and Canadian managers ...
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I’m a software engineer who might soon be laid off. Would spending time as gig worker hurt my return?
I am a software engineer who works for a company that makes event management software. For obvious reasons, we may be in financial trouble (a lot of board meetings happening lately with a lot of ...
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Are Employer pension plan and EI contributions necessary in Canada?
Is it alright that there is no mention of Canada pension plan and EI contributions in an employment contract or in the letter of employment offer? Do these happen automatically at predefined rates and ...
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Employment contract in a small company
A small Canadian company sent me an offer of employment in which there is nothing said about my salary figures (which does not concern me, as I and my employer have discussed this verbally). The only ...
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What is the normal rate of turnover among developers and does it impact productivity?
Not a techie, but know that techies are found here, so am asking here. I am a relatively new generalized HR/talent obtaining person at a bank where we keep having to hire more developers and I ...
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What do I do when my fellow worker tries to degrade me?
I am a master student and an intern in a company. I have joined a company 11 months ago. After completing my first project (after about 6 months) which was a successful project, the company became ...
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I work full time during the week. Can my employer also ask me to be On-call on the weekends without pay? [closed]
I work as an IT support tech at a company in British Columbia. Right now I work Monday to Friday 40 hours a week, normal daytime hours. I am paid salary, though my salary is based on the hourly wage I ...
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How to get employer to pay “garden leave” instead of making me work from home for a year?
I've worked in the Canadian arm of a large US corporation for 8 years now (the company isn't exactly renowned for being civil to its employees) as a senior engineer. I've earned 11 months of severance ...
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Hiring range/wage vs. Salary/wage range
I'm considering applying for a position which just posted in my field of work (within government). The position itself is right up my alley; however, what caught my eye in the job posting is that they ...
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Possibility of cancelling Summer Internship at a start-up due to COVID-19
I recently got an internship offer at a start-up for Summer.
Here is the offer I received on March 14.
The team really appreciated meeting with you, and we would like to
extend you an offer for ...
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Should I ask my company to pay my internet bill if circumstances and the company strongly recommend remote work?
COVID-19, remote work is "strongly recommended" by the company I work for. I live in a place where the internet bills/plans are ridiculous. (I am not paid a competitive market salary rate if relevant.)...
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How do I respond to a monetary award from CEO?
I am an engineering student and an intern at a company in Canada.
I have worked on some projects so far. I have always tried to do my best, have a good impact on companies grows as an R&D.
I ...
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How do I approach my employer about being force to work as a warehouse grunt while I was hired as a mechanical designer?
I work as a mechanical designer but am asked to move warehouse goods averaging 20kgs per box.
The mechanical work I do is drafting designs for HVAC and plumbing layouts for residential/commercial/...
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Employment contract specifies 40 hours. Normal?
Recently I received an offer for a Project Management position at IT company.
Before I've been working for about 6 years as a contractor/freelancer, and also I've never been working as an employee in ...
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Should I be worried about my upcoming background check for a new job after leaving my last company badly?
I'm graduating in April, this year. I signed a job offer with a large company, X, to start in May of this year. I was told that the background check would take place roughly one month from now–in ...
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Coworker makes same money as me
I work for a company where a coworker that is at a lower position than me makes the same money as me. I have 4x more responsibilites than him but yet he makes the same amount. I understand that I may ...
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What are easiest areas to get away with lying on your resume? [closed]
I’m a junior developer who’s contract is ending and I have been lazy in my job search. Now I need to get another job fast. However, I only have 6 months of experience and it took me 4 months to find ...
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How can it be legal to have a contractor do the same job as a regular employee?
This may be a strange question and I may have some misunderstandings.
In my experience it's not unusual for a contractor to be doing the same work as a regular employee. For example if a firm needs ...
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Is it appropriate to ask a university guest lecturer about potential jobs? If so, how?
I am currently in my last year of university and there have been guest lecturers in multiple courses I have taken. Some of them are from companies that hire students for internship positions and/or ...
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How do you deal with psychological harassment at work?
How do you deal with psychological harassment at work? How can you identify it, prevent it and what can be done once it happens?
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Transitioning to fully remote work with the same company
I work for a small company in Toronto as a Software Developer. We are a development shop where I and two other developers spend our full work week on a single client which is based in New York city. ...
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English or French resume for Software jobs in Montreal?
I'm applying for lots of jobs right now, one place I'm looking is Montreal. I'm seeing some job postings in English, some in French, some in both. Most or all jobs list being bilingual as a ...
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I may have accidentally told two colleagues that my team lead looks like a man who attacked me
I recently signed on as an engineer with a high paying firm, and was excited to finally have (for the first time in my career) a well paying job.
I finally get to meet my new supervisor (not my boss, ...
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3answers
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My boss and I disagreed over my invoice so she fired me [closed]
I work part time for a company that does special events. The other day someone wasn't able to make it to their shift. I replied to management's last minute request and volunteered to take the shift. ...
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3answers
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Saturday attire
I am a software engineer intern at a small company. My manager and I are going into the office tomorrow to get some work done. Should I dress formally as I normally do, or should I dress casually ...
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Is it unprofessional to wear a red dress to a Christmas party? [duplicate]
This is the first time that I am going to attend a company Christmas party.
I choose to wear this type of dress, and it is red. Do you think it is professional/appropriate to wear red? and in general ...
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Handling awkward coworker
I have a weird colleague who always wants to know what I am doing, like every single day. Having said that he is not my manager but he acts as if he is my boss.
Since I am an R&D engineer, I am ...
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How to dress for a office Christmas party? [closed]
I recently got my first job (internship) as an engineer and it is my first time that I am going to participate in a Christmas party where all of my officemates and my boss are there.
I wanted to ...
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What's the politest way of writing when you have not received a reply? [duplicate]
Some counter-parties don't reply promptly, and my boss requires paper record like emailing them again e.g. after 7 business days additional to follow-up calls. My boss and I think my writing is very ...
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Boss just abruptly quit after 13 years at the company. No replacement yet identified. Other developers have recently quit. Others seek to leave
I am a recent graduate in my first job after university and have been at my current company for 3 months as a software engineer.
On Friday, it was abruptly announced that my boss (the guy who hired ...
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How to force disgruntled worker not to publicly disclose “GPL'ed code”
I'm currently the only HR worker at a medium sized engineering firm in Canada. There should normally be 2 additionally HR workers on-staff more senior than me, but one is on parental leave and the ...
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Employer demanding money back when I resigned because of “accidental pay raise”
I signed on with a large Canadian tech company about 6 years ago, and submitted my resignation (company pays well, but new management was installed about a year ago, and they're very abusive, vulgar, ...
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Employer masquerading as recruiter to decide which employees to lay off
I work in the Canada office (Ontario) of a large US tech firm. The firm has had a few lackluster quarters, and appears to be preparing for a few rounds of layoffs.
My company, AwefulCorp Inc. (made ...
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Posted negative review of an employer on social media, manager replied saying I have sexual harassment accusations
I work for a company that does marketing. They send me around to different stores to give out samples of products. This particular company has been unfair and dishonest in the past. I have reduced my ...
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Should I ask the previous person in the position I'm offered for advice?
I have recently been given 2 offers for jobs that interest me. I accepted one already, but just today I got another offer!
I know rescinding an offer is frowned upon and I'm not outright going to. ...
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Should I negotiate this new offer?
So I went through the interview process and I received a verbal offer via voicemail. The hr manager asked me what my current salary is and what my expectations are.. as well as other benefits, ...
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Verbal offer received, but now silence [duplicate]
I had a phone interview with a company on September 6th with the HR manager and at the end of the conversation she said she would get back to me the following week once she does her round of ...
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How to discipline overeager engineer
I have a software engineer on my staff that has been very useful. He basically trains himself on new technologies on a weekly basis, and can memorize and apply the latest O'Reilly textbook over a ...
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Can my former employer sue me if I don't give them the photos I took (taking pictures was not part of my job description)?
I was hired by a company to run demos and do merchandising for their product. Managers found out that I have experience as a photographer and asked me to run a photoshoot for them with the promise ...
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How to determine a reasonable bonus when signing a fixed-term contract? [closed]
(This question is actually for a friend, so I don't know exactly all details).
Background: Full time engineer at a large multi-national company. Making about 85k/year after 3.5 years with company.
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References from Current Employer
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What is a plausible way to provide a reference from my current employer by way of a colleague (who is in management) without endangering my current potion, his position and doing so that makes ...
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Boss refusing vacation after tentatively agreeing but ticket booked! [closed]
So for the entire month of August I have been indicating to my boss and my team that I would like to take vacation end of Nov/beg of Dec and was saving all my time for then. It was never a problem and ...
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How can I deduce whether I'm just experiencing the impostor syndrome at work or I'm actually inadequate?
I joined the automation team at a big company in my country about a year ago, straight out of university. Since then I've gotten involved in half a dozen projects, but haven't actually completed any ...
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My new job doesn't have work life balance
I just started at a new place of work yesterday and I already noticed they don't have a good work-life balance. I started at 9 am and had to beg to leave by 5 pm. I prefer to work from 8 am to 4 pm ...
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Can an Iranian get an internship at an American company(namely, IBM)? [closed]
Here’s a little bit of backstory:
I moved in to Canada from Iran 2 years ago with my family with just a Visitor’s Visa but after I attended school for 6 months, I got my Student’s Visa and I’ve been ...
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Pay if quitting a new job [closed]
I worked 3 days at a new job, and then I had to call in and quit, as my daughter ended ill in another city, and I went there. Do they have to pay me?
