When does an AWOL employee abandon her job?
This blog summarizes the Hettrick v Triple F Paving case which recently considered the issue of job abandonment.
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Human Rights Commissioner publications on COVID-19 employment issues
In this time of rapidly changing circumstances, neither the Human Rights Tribunal nor the courts have had time to weigh in on whether COVID-19 amounts to a disability. However, in my view as BC’s Human Rights Commissioner, it does.
COVID-19: Federal job-protected leave under Canada Labour Code announced
As an emergency response measure, the federal government has introduced up to 16 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave under the Canada Labour Code for federal employees who are “unable or unavailable to work for reasons related to COVID-19”.
