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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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Process matters: understanding the procedural duty to accommodate

What is sometimes forgotten is that the duty to accommodate has both procedural and substantive aspects. This means that it is not enough for an employer to arrive at the right result. The process in getting there is just as important.

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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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