Author: Amy Loo
COVID-19 and Employment Insurance Benefits
Updated March 19, 2020 EI Benefits for Employees under Quarantine The Federal Government and BC Provincial Government require that people who are arriving from outside of Canada or who exhibit signs and symptoms of COVID-19 are required to self-isolate for 14 days. Employees who go into self-isolation because: they were asked by their employer […] Read more
COVID-19. What Employers Need To Know
What is COVID-19? COVID-19 is a new virus that belongs to a family of coronaviruses which include SARS and MERS. It originated in Wuhan, the capital of central China’s Hubei province and has spread across the globe. Since the discovery of the virus in December of 2019, it has been detected in 114 countries. The […] Read more
Important Changes coming to Employment Standards Act and Labour Relations Code
Bill 8 – Amendments to the ESA On April 29, 2019, the BC NDP Government’s Minister of Labour, Harry Bains, introduced Bill 8 – Employment Standards Amendment Act (“Bill 8”) for first reading. The Bill will make extensive changes to the Employment Standards Act (ESA) in British Columbia, the first set of comprehensive amendments in […] Read more
Sheen Arnold McNeil LLP Lawyers join Pulver Crawford Munroe LLP
The partners of Pulver Crawford Munroe LLP are excited to announce that Peter Sheen, Susan Arnold, and Marcia McNeil will be joining the firm, effective January 1, 2019. Peter Sheen and Susan Arnold will be joining the firm’s Vancouver office, while Marcia McNeil will lead the firm’s Victoria office in the same location she has […] Read more
Why Office Romances Present Legal Risks for Employers
This article was originally published on October 3, 2018 by BIV (https://biv.com/), part of Glacier Media Inc., at https://biv.com/article/2018/10/why-office-romances-present-legal-risks-employers. Read more
Proposed Amendments to the Employment Standards Act
On April 9, 2018, the Minister of Labour introduced the Employment Standards Amendment Act, 2018 (Bill 6), which proposes amendments to the Employment Standards Act, extending leaves of absence to employees. During leaves of absence recognized by the ESA, employers are not required to pay employees, but must allow the employee to return to their […] Read more
B.C. Court of Appeal clarifies standard for award of aggravated damages based on mental distress in wrongful dismissal cases
The B.C. Court of Appeal recently reversed a lower court decision and ruled that the “ordinary psychological impact” one experiences upon being terminated from a job is not compensable as aggravated damages. The plaintiff, Mr. Lau, brought a wrongful dismissal action against Royal Bank of Canada and sought to recover aggravated damages for mental distress […] Read more
New Amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations
The Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (“OHSR”) under the Workers Compensation Act, (the “Act”) has been amended to add new provisions requiring an annual written evaluation by the employer of joint health and safety committees, minimum training requirements for new joint committee members and worker health and safety representatives and participation in investigations by a […] Read more
