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By Barry B. Fisher LL.B. | 4 Minutes Read June 19, 2023

Refusing a return to work after layoff found to be a complete failure to mitigate

In Blomme v. Princeton Standard Pellet Corporation, 2023 BCSC 652, Justice Mac Naughton had a situation involving a 64 year old Plant Supervisor with 20 years service in a small town who was initially laid off due to COVID on April 4, 2020 with an unexpected date of recall.

Article by Barry B. Fisher LL.B. / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Payroll / Covid19, duty to mitigate, employment law, failure to mitigate, layoff, notice period, termination, wrongful dismissal Leave a Comment

By Doug MacLeod, MacLeod Law Firm | 3 Minutes Read December 13, 2022

Doug’s top 5 employment law stories of 2022

tort of harassmentTop 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.

Article by Doug MacLeod, MacLeod Law Firm / Employment Standards, Health and Safety, Human Rights, Payroll / disconnecting from work policy, duty to accommodate, electronic monitoring policy, employment contract, employment law, employment standards act, Just cause termination, layoff, mandatory vaccine policy, recorded conversations, termination, wrongful dismissal Leave a Comment

By Vey Willetts LLP | 3 Minutes Read March 11, 2022

COVID downturn in business not a frustration of employment

force mejeureFrustration, in the employment law context, describes a situation where ongoing employment has been rendered untenable by an unanticipated change in circumstances beyond the parties’ control.

Article by Vey Willetts LLP / Employment Standards, Payroll / employment law, employment standards act, frustration of contract, frustration of employment, frustration of employment contract, layoff, pandemic, temporary layoff, termination

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