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Three years later – a review of employment law and the pandemic

As we approach the third anniversary of the first response to COVID-19 in Canada, many of the employment law changes that arose during 2020 have been adapted to suit the evolving landscape and are still in effect. As we can all attest, staying up to date on the various changes to the Employment Standards Act (“ESA”) and the common law has been a complicated task.

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When is forty minutes too much?

Ontario employees who lose their job are required to take reasonable steps to replace their lost income. Severance is intended to bridge the gap while an individual is out of work, and there is a legal requirement that, where possible, a person take all reasonable steps to stem the flow of their losses.

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BCSC holds that putting non-compliant employee on leave for violating vaccine mandate is NOT a constructive dismissal

In Parmar v. Tribe Management Inc., (2022 BCSC 1675) Justice MacNaughton ruled that a mandatory vaccine policy introduced in October of 2021 was reasonable and that on an objective basis a reasonable employee would not have considered the policy as a substantial imposition of an essential term of the agreement.

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