WRITTEN BY
Mathews Dinsdale,
Canada's only national
labour and employment
law firm.
Proposed changes in Ontario would make remote workers
eligible for the same 'enhanced' notice period as in-office
employees, and it would also entitle new hires to certain written
information about their jobs.
The Ontario Government has?announced?that it is proposing
changes to the mass termination provisions of the?Employment
Standards Act?('ESA'), concerning notice for workers whose
employment is severed as part of a mass termination.
Currently, where an employer terminates 50 or more employees at
their establishment over a four-week period, these employees are
entitled to an enhanced notice period of eight, twelve, or sixteen
weeks' notice, depending on the number of terminations
effected. Remote workers do not currently qualify for these notice
periods, even as part of a mass termination, as they work from home
and not their employer's 'establishment'.
