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COVID-19: Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance for Small Businesses
Please refer to this post for the most updated information on CECRA: Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance Application and Document Samples – CHMC Releases Details (posted May 25, 2020) Mortgage and Rent Subsidy for Small Business Affected by COVID-19 On April 24, 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance program…
Read MoreCOVID-19: A Practical Overview of Employer Options
Navigating Workplace Options in 3 Steps In response to the serious economic symptoms of COVID-19, organizations are having to make the most difficult kinds of business decisions – the human ones. As a follow-up to our initial webinar, we are providing a practical guide regarding the general options available to employers to respond to the…
Read MoreCOVID-19: Further Details On Federal Government’s Wage Subsidy Program
This is a live blog, meaning we’ll update this blog as more details are available regarding the Federal government’s wage subsidy program. Stay tuned! Following up on our earlier blog, new details have emerged concerning the Federal government’s announcement of up to a 75% wage subsidy for qualifying organizations, retroactive to March 15, 2020. While…
Read MoreCOVID-19: Federal Government Boosts Wage Subsidy for Businesses
New 75% Wage Subsidy for Businesses Earlier today, the Federal government announced additional support for small and medium-sized businesses with the goal of encouraging businesses not to reduce staffing levels during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The centrepiece of this announcement is a significantly expanded wage subsidy. The Federal government had previously announced a 10% wage…
Read MoreCOVID-19: Proposed Amendment to BC Employment Standards Act
The BC government has tabled an amendment to the Employment Standards Act (“ESA“) that will increase employees’ rights to unpaid leave not only during the COVID-19 pandemic, but also into the future. The proposed amendment grants employees the right to an indefinite amount of leave if they are dealing with specific disruptions brought on by…
Read MoreCOVID-19 and the Workplace – Your Legal Obligations as an Employer and Employee during a Pandemic
Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19, global updates have been flooding our news feed – whether it be which politician has been tested positive for the virus or what sport and music event has announced they are postponing or cancelling, we are all in one way or another affected by this…
Read MoreThe Jig is Up on the Gig Economy – OLRB says Foodora Couriers can Unionize
Case Review: Canadian Union of Postal Workers v Foodora Inc (dba Foodora) (2020), OLRB Case No 1346-19-R In a new decision with potentially far-reaching consequences, the Ontario Labour Relations Board (the “Board”) has held that Foodora couriers have the right to unionize. You’ve almost certainly seen them buzzing around your neighborhood on their bikes, braving the…
Read MorePart IV – The Neverending Story: The Code and the Goblet of Human Rights
Like all great tetralogies (a Greek word defined as a compound work composed of four distinct works – Google it), we let the success of our initial trilogy go to our heads (read Part I: Employment Standards Act, Part II: Labour Relations Code, and Part III: Canada Labour Code). The resulting inflated egos, creative differences, unsuccessful side…
Read MoreBCCA Pumps the Brakes on Application of Rosas v. Toca to Employment Contract Variations
Case Review: Quach v Mitrux Services Ltd., 2020 BCCA 25 Recently, the BC Court of Appeal commented on several foundational issues that arise in wrongful dismissal litigation. Particularly, the following are of interest to employers: the enforceability of a new or varied employment contract; when a dismissed employee may succeed with a claim for aggravated…
Read MoreFirst Cited: Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act in BC Charter Claim
Case Review: Servatius v Alberni School District No 70, 2020 BCSC 15 With the recent passing of Bill 41, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (“Declaration Act”), which MT+Co.’s Merle Alexander, QC co-drafted, British Columbia is one of the first jurisdictions in the world to take legislative action to implement the United…
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