Episode Overview
Knowing your rights as an employer is as crucial as knowing the implications of hiring and firing. With so many expert employment lawyers in Canada, there’s no reason you can’t protect yourself while hiring a team that accels. “It’s very important to hire the right people.” Malcolm MacKillop is a founding member and primary partner at Toronto’s Shields O’Donnell MacKillop LLP. He is a successful trial lawyer, a law professor, a professional speaker, and an author. Malcolm is certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Civil Litigation and has been ranked by Lexpert as one of the top Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. He was also awarded the Queen Elizabeth medal for philanthropy abroad by the Governor General of Canada. In this week’s #StartupPodcast, host Rivers Corbett talks to Malcolm about the basics of hiring employees and building a positive and productive workforce for a small company, and including legal pitfalls to avoid.
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