Tag: Stephen Acker

Employee Stock Options: Get Them Right

By Northern Exposure Feb 14, 2011 Northern Exposure

Updated: Feb 14, 2011

By Christopher Ferguson and Stephen Acker In 2010, Jen-Hsun Huang’s salary was $1. No, he’s not a fresh-faced intern. Rather, Huang is the CEO of Nvidia Inc., the graphics and mobile chipmaker with Intel-sized ambitions. In that context, $1 seems like a meager reward. You would imagine that out of the firm’s $844 million in […]

Tippling in the Barrel of Untruth: How Not to Handle a Termination

By Northern Exposure Sep 27, 2010 Northern Exposure

Updated: Sep 27, 2010

By Stephen Acker and Joel Henderson Four years ago in Ottawa, the Federal Canadian Government nipped a nascent spending scandal in the bud when it fired two employees of the Canadian Department of Public Works, Douglas Tipple and David Rotor. Tipple successfully grieved his termination before the Public Service Labour Relations Board, winning the largest […]

Beware the Perils of Firing Employee-Shareholders

By Northern Exposure Jun 21, 2010 Northern Exposure

Updated: Jun 21, 2010

By Stephen Acker and Julia Kennedy As we have repeatedly reported, courts are finding new ways to put money in former employees’ pockets in Canada. Another example is the Ontario Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Link v. Venture Steel Inc. and Ruben Rivas, where it agreed with the trial judge’s decision awarding a former […]