Latest Case Law: Canada: Rules for
Statutory Severance Pay are Clarified by the Ontario Labour
Relations Board In Hawkes v Max Aicher (North America)
Limited, 2018 CanLII 125999, the Ontario Labour Relations
Board recently clarified that only an employer's Ontario
payroll is considered when calculating severance pay under the
Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000. Employers with
international operations may be exempt from the requirement to
provide statutory severance pay if their Ontario payrolls are less
than $2.5 million » Read More
Impending Changes of Legislation:
Canada: New "Employer Health Tax" Now in Effect
in British Columbia Pursuant to the new Employer Health Tax Act, certain
employers in British Columbia are now required to pay to the
government for each calendar year a tax equal to 1.95% of the BC
remuneration paid by the employer during the calendar year » Read More
