Yesterday afternoon, the B.C. Legislature passed amendments to
the B.C. Employment Standards Act, and last week,
WorkSafeBC published a series of recommendations to employers and
employees navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. This memorandum
addresses these, and other, recent developments that will be of
significance to employers operating in B.C. and elsewhere.
For further information relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and
how it may impact your workplace, please look to our bulletins of
March 18 and 19, 2020, which can be found here:
This memorandum is current to the morning of March 24, 2020, but
the pandemic and the responses of federal and provincial
governments continue to evolve, and this may impact the accuracy of
the information in this bulletin. If in doubt about whether
anything in this document is still current, please do not hesitate
to contact us.
