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Time theft: Employee ordered to repay employer

Recently, an accountant was ordered to repay her employer for engaging in time theft. In Besse v Reach CPA Inc., the employer submitted evidence via time-tracking software proving that the employee had engaged in time theft while working remotely.

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Employee’s time theft revealed by electronic monitoring

Although Ontario is the only province with mandatory electronic monitoring requirements for employers under the Employment Standards Act (ESA), British Columbia recently had an interesting wrongful dismissal case in which employee time theft, remote work, and electronic monitoring intersected.

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Doug’s top 5 employment law stories of 2022

Top 5 employment law stories for 2022: Temporary layoffs related to COVID, mandatory vaccine policy just cause for termination, disconnecting from work and electronic monitoring policies, employment contracts, and secretly tape recording workplace conversations.

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