Or rather trying to make its own rules. This from the Financial Post about the ongoing saga related to unpaid overtime:
Those who dispute the firm’s findings are entitled to arbitration and KPMG will pay for the arbitrators and mediators. Employees are entitled to independent legal advice subject to–are you ready for this? — a $500 maximum, which won’t buy you a cup of coffee with most litigators and certainly not an arbitration. It’s unlikely $500 would by you much KPMG accounting advice, either.
Humorously, a week after announcing its redress plan, KPMG was named one of the country’s top 20 employers for new Canadians. Wonder if they know the overtime laws?
If KPMG is serious about addressing the OT class suit it should work closely with the lawyers who launched it. If it weren’t for them, employees would have nothing on the table. By shutting out the class-action firm, from the get-go KPMG looks petty and vindictive.
Petty and vindictive sounds right to me. If KPMG carries on like this then it stands a very good chance of annoying lawyers and judges to the point of getting a good spanking in court. Judges in Canada don’t take kindly to those who try and weasel their way out of their obligations. KPMG should know it is not immune to being given a good spanking.
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