Print version available here. In British Columbia, B.C. Employment Standards Act1 (“B.C. ESA”) governs the relationship between employers and employees with respect to their rights governing the practice of administrative suspension for economic reasons, commonly known as temporary layoffs. B.C. ESA, however, only provides a part of the picture and to complete that picture, one mustContinue reading “LAYOFF: The landscape in British Columbia”
Temporary Layoff: A Comparative Review of the Law across British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario
Print version available here . I. INTRODUCTION In a fluctuating economy, an employer may search for ways to cut costs, if it is to survive. One consideration the employer may make is to temporarily layoff some of its employees during the slow period. Layoff, generally speaking, is a practice that temporarily suspends –not terminates– theContinue reading “Temporary Layoff: A Comparative Review of the Law across British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario”
Employers beware: The myth of temporary layoff may result in a wrongful dismissal liability
For print version, click here. Introduction The primary purpose of this article is to examine, in a non-union setting, some instructive British Columbia cases on the “temporary layoff” provision in the B.C. Employment Standards Act ((Employment Standards Act, RSBC 1996, c.113)) (“ESA”) with a view to providing the reader some guidance on the subject matterContinue reading “Employers beware: The myth of temporary layoff may result in a wrongful dismissal liability”