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

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.

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

Frustration, 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 Leave a Comment

By Achkar Law | 3 Minutes Read September 16, 2020

Pandemic lessons: Up-to-date termination and layoff clauses

two people workingEmployers making dismissal decisions would be best served with employment contracts that grant flexibility in these circumstances with a properly drafted layoff clause. Why? Because the current pandemic has proven that we are not always as prepared as we think we are and must always be prepared for the unexpected.

Article by Achkar Law / Business, Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Human Rights, Payroll / constructive dismissal, COVID-19, employment contract, employment law, layoff, wrongful dismissal

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