Blog for Employees
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We invite you to review some of our blogs posts on these subjects below and encourage you to keep watching as we post new ones.
A Path Towards Pay Equity? – The Pay Transparency Act and New Obligations on Employers
According to Statistics Canada, British Columbia has one of the biggest divides between pay for men and women in Canada. In an effort to increase pay equity and decrease the gender pay gap in British [...]
Privacy in the Workplace: Can your Employer Spy on You?
Remote and hybrid work models have blossomed under the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This change in the labour market has spurred employers to consider how employees can be effectively managed while defying location-based employment. [...]
Clarification on differing treatment of discrimination based on family status
The recent BC Supreme Court case of Gibraltar Mines Ltd. v Harvey, 2022 BCSC 385 provides some clarity to how the issue of discrimination based on family status may be handled in the employment context [...]
UPDATE- Temporary layoffs and the Employment Standards Act of B.C.
May 6, 2020 By: Azadeh Taghizadeh, Daniel Sorensen and Lawrence Smith The British Columbia government has extended the temporary layoff period to 16 weeks under the Employment Standards Act (“Act”) to financially help businesses and [...]
New Canada Emergency Response Benefit
March 25, 2020 By: Azadeh Taghizadeh, Daniel Sorensen and Lawrence Smith The government has proposed a new Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), in order to help businesses and workers of Canada with financial support for [...]
IS MY JOB PROTECTED IF I MUST STAY HOME DUE TO COVID-19?
March 24, 2020 By: Azadeh Taghizadeh, Daniel Sorensen and Lawrence Smith What you need to know about the recent changes to the Employment Standards Act. On March 23, 2020, the BC Legislature unanimously passed [...]