Layoffs | MacLeod Law Firm https://macleodlawfirm.ca Employment & Labour Lawyers Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:03:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://macleodlawfirm.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cropped-MacLeod-Law-Firm-icon-60x60.jpg Layoffs | MacLeod Law Firm https://macleodlawfirm.ca 32 32 The end of IDEL ( i.e. COVID layoffs) under the Employment Standard Act: The Great Reckoning https://macleodlawfirm.ca/the-end-of-idel-covid-layoffs-under-the-employment-standards-act/ Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:00:49 +0000 https://macleodlawfirm.ca/?p=222127 Some employers have benefitted from COVID and others have not. The federal government has supported the “have not” employers with a 75% wage subsidy. But it is scheduled to come to an end in September. So I have been getting calls from employers who cannot maintain their workforce without these subsidies. Some owners have decided to shut down the business, some are selling the business…

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]]> Is a Temporary Layoff under the ESA a termination at common law? https://macleodlawfirm.ca/temporary-layoffs-under-the-esa/ Wed, 09 Jun 2021 14:00:41 +0000 https://macleodlawfirm.ca/?p=222050 When the COVID pandemic hit Ontario, many employers temporarily laid off employees because business revenues plummeted. To address these massive layoffs, the Ontario government introduced O. Reg. 228/20: Infectious Disease Emergency Leave (the ¨IDEL Regulation¨) under the Employment Standards Act (the ¨ESA¨) which provides, among other things, that temporary layoffs that take place between…

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