Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy Is Now Law! What’s New & Employment Law Considerations
CEWS - What's New and Employment Law Considerations - KSW Article - Download PDF On March 27th 2020 the Prime Minister announced a wage subsidy of 75% for qualifying businesses. This program is the most important and fundamental initiative in the Federal...
Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy – What We Know and What We Don’t
April 19, 2020 Update - Our Group hosted a Q&A webinar to answer some of your questions! Review the Webinar recordings and Q&A in our blog post Let’s Talk: Questions about Covid-19, The Workplace and Your Business April 14, 2020 Update: For further details,...
Labour Relations Code Changes – Unfair Labour Practices, Employer Free Speech and Remedial Certification
Mike Weiler wrote this article for the Spring Issue (April - June 2020) of the Signals Magazine, publication for members and friends of the New Car Dealers Association of BC - read the issue here. LABOUR RELATIONS CODE CHANGES—WHY ARE B C FED OFFICIALS SMILING? When...
WorkSafeBC Updates: Staying Safe at Work, Working from Home, Other Updates
Update: March 24, 2020 Staying Safe at Work WorkSafeBC has provided updated guidelines for “staying safe at work” during the COVID-19 outbreak. These social distancing guidelines include: Evaluate your work tasks and workspace Can you reduce/suspend non-essential...
New COVID-19 Leave and Provincial Action Plan
Update: March 24, 2020 New COVID-19 Leave On March 23, 2020, the BC government passed amendments to the Employment Standards Act (“ESA”) to support workers during the pandemic crisis by creating a COVID-19-related leave. The new provisions permit an employee to...
An Employer’s Guide to Managing Coronavirus in the Workplace – Frequently Asked Questions
Update: March 17, 2020 The COVID-19 status is rapidly evolving in Canada. Please see our updated informational Video and Guide here: https://youtu.be/GHBAyojQtt0 We are also sharing some further questions we are getting from our clients for your information below...
Recent Employment Law Developments
By: Chris Drinovz Lots of recent court action on employment law matters in BC. Let's review these recent employment law developments: A-Teck Appraisals Ltd. v. Constandinou, 2020 BCSC 135: Court stayed a wrongful dismissal claim in light of enforceable arbitration...
Where employment law and contract law principles meet WCB
By: Chris Drinovz Sherstobitoff v British Columbia (Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal), 2019 BCSC 1659 Chris D. Drinovz of KSW Lawyers recently represented our client Dale Sherstobitoff in a judicial review overturning a decision of...
Overtime and the Salaried Employee under the Employment Standards Act
By: Jesse Dunning Overtime for salaried employees can be an area of confusion for workers in BC. Many employees (and many employers) assume that because their employment contract sets out a fixed salary for the year, the employer is not required to pay the...
Labour Code and E S Act Amendments Now Law; WorkSafe problems on the horizon; New Human Rights Commissioner Appointed
Newsletter by Michael J Weiler Friends, Labour Code and E S Act Amendments In our recent newsletter and blog posts we advised that the NDP/Green coalition government introduced significant amendments to the Labour Relations Code (“Bill 30”) and the Employment...