Federal Spending Bill Gets Royal Assent

The Senate has approved the Coronavirus support package and the spending bill has received Royal Assent.  The Bill, titled Covid-19 Emergency Response Act (the “Act”) includes broad new measures to support workers and businesses dealing with the impact of the pandemic.  $52 billion of the package will be to provide direct support to Canadian workers ...

Managing Work Reductions Due to COVID-19 – Employment Insurance Sick Benefits and Work Sharing Program

The Covid19 pandemic is creating significant challenges in the workplace and those challenges will only increase as governments impose stricter and stricter restrictions on the movement of individuals in our society.  This has significant impact on businesses and employees whether it is through ill or quarantined workers, closure of businesses due to government order or ...

EMPLOYER ALERT: CORONAVIRUS DECLARED A PANDEMIC

The World Health Organization (WHO) has now declared the Coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. This does not mean that the characteristics of the disease have changed at all, it simply means there are concerns with its geographic spread.  According to the WHO a pandemic is declared when a new disease for which people do not have ...