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Changes To RCDS By-Laws

Changes To RCDS By-Laws Addressing Transparency Issues

The RCDS has recently announced that it will be amending its By-Laws, effective October 1, 2015, to expand the information available to the public on the RCDS’s Public Register.

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The Duty to Accommodate in Dental Offices

The Duty to Accommodate in Dental Offices

We receive calls every week from dentists complaining about employees who are taking too many illness or disability related absences. Dentists are frustrated because in a small office the absence of even one employee can be incredibly disruptive. Ten percent of employees are unscrupulous and will abuse the right to take sick days. We also routinely encounter employees who are disciplined by the employer for not doing their job properly, and suddenly struck down with an undefined illness for an indefinite duration.

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Unions in Dental Offices

Unions in Dental Offices: What are my rights?

If the term labour union conjures up images of “blue-collar” automotive or factory workers, then you likely are not aware of the changing face of unions in Canada. In 2014, Credit Valley Oral Surgery was the first dental office to become unionized in Ontario. We are receiving an increasing number of enquiries concerning unionization, and it is believed that a specific union is targeting dental offices for unionization. If this is to occur, it will represent a seismic shift in the employment law landscape for dentists.

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The Danger in Allowing an Employee to Commence Employment Before Contract

Haste Makes Waste: The Danger in Allowing an Employee to Commence Employment Before Properly Implementing a Dental Employment Contract

We consistently run into employers who have taken the time to prepare a new written employment agreement and have a new employee sign it, before the start of their first shift. Unfortunately, it is quite often the case that these employment agreements were actually signed after the employee truly commenced employment.

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Dental Employment Contract

An Ounce of Prevention: The Benefits of Dental Employment Contracts (Part 2)

If possible, we recommend that employers put employment contracts in place prior to the employee commencing employment, by having prospective employees sign written offers of employment before commencing employment.

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The benefits of dental employment contracts

An Ounce of Prevention: The Benefits of Dental Employment Contracts (Part 1)

A question we often receive from dentists who run their own practice is: “What are the benefits of having written dental employment contracts in place?”

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