Ontario employers with a payroll of $2.5 million or more are required under Section 64 of the Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000 (the “ESA”) to pay statutory severance pay to...
Recently we sent out an Alert outlining how the current Infectious Disease Emergency Leave (“IDEL”) could be considered constructive dismissal at common law. Well there appears to be a disagreement...
The Ontario government has once again extended the deemed Infectious Disease Emergency Leave (“IDEL”), which had been set to expire on July 3rd, 2021, and now will end on September...
British Columbia Following in Ontario’s footsteps, British Colombia now requires employers to provide employees with up to three paid sick days where they stay home for the following reasons: Diagnosed...
Good news for Ontario employers who were wondering how to seek reimbursement for the paid sick days mandated back in April. The government has finally updated their website to include...
A recent Ontario case (Coutinho v. Ocular Health Centre Ltd.) has confirmed what most employment lawyers had suspected – placing an employee on a deemed Infectious Disease Emergency Leave (“IDEL”)...
As a follow-up to our April 30th Alert where we outlined the new COVID-19 Putting Workers First Act, which required employers to provide three paid sick days to most of...
On May 7, 2021, the Manitoba provincial government announced the Pandemic Sick Leave program to provide employers with up to $600 per employee for up to 5 days for COVID-19...
The Ontario government has passed the new COVID-19 Putting Workers First Act, which will mandate employers to provide three paid sick days to most employees. Provincially regulated employees (federally regulated...
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal recently refused to hear a case regarding an employee’s objection to wearing a mask at work. In The Worker v. The District Managers (2021...