Employees in Ontario are protected by Ontario's Human Rights Code (the "Code") in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, those protections include: – it is discriminatory to treat employees who have, or are perceived to have, contracted COVID-19, in a negative manner, for reasons unrelated to public health and safety; – employers have a duty to accommodate employees […]
Due the shutdown of non-essential workplaces, effective March 24, 2020, many employers will be considering temporarily laying off employees, at those employers who do not qualify as “essential workplaces”. This is not a risk-fee, easy-to-do step by an employer, despite the catastrophic circumstances. Ontario’s Employment Standards Act, 2000 (the “ESA”) allows employers to invoke a
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The Ontario Government has ordered the mandatory closure of all non-essential workplaces, effective March 24, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. This order will be in effect for fourteen days with the possibility of being extended as the circumstances evolve. Here is a list of “essential workplaces” in Ontario, as declared: ttps://s3.amazonaws.com/files.news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2020/03/list-of-essential-workplaces-2.html For the purposes of this
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