When should an employer issue an ROE in case of separation of employment?
Section 19(3)(i) of the Employment Insurance Regulations (SOR/96-332) states that an employer must issue the Record of Employment (ROE) within 5 days after the employee’s earnings are “interrupted.”
Jeff Dutton, Dutton Employment Law
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September 27, 2019 
Maternity and parental leave policies: To top up, or to tap out? That is the question…
New York-based bank JP Morgan Chase has recently been getting a lot of attention in the media after paying a hefty 5 million dollars to settle charges that their parental leave policy was discriminatory towards their male employees. It is believed that the settlement will impact up to 5,000 fathers who were denied parental leave benefits.
Piccolo Heath LLP
Workplace investigation alert – Injunctions in investigations: Do they ever work?
There is no question that workplace investigations are disruptive and difficult for the parties involved. Sometimes parties are removed from the workplace or their duties are modified. Complainants and respondents are often concerned about damage to their reputations and their careers once it is known that a complaint has been made, and that an investigation is being conducted. Can an investigation ever be shut down in anticipation of this disruption?
Rubin Thomlinson LLP
Employee entitled to vacation pay on “discretionary” bonus
When is a “discretionary” bonus to be included in the statutory definition of “wages”?
Sean Bawden
BC’s 14 protected grounds of discrimination
The Federal government, along with every province and territory in Canada, has human rights legislation prohibiting discrimination on grounds such as race, gender and disability in a number of public environments.
Occasional Contributors
Duty to accommodate may be triggered even when employee does not request accommodation
As we all know, employers are required to accommodate individuals to the point of “undue hardship” where the need for accommodation relates to a ground protected by human rights legislation, such as disability.
Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation
Remembrance Day, a public holiday for some, memorial day for others
Remembrance Day falls on Sunday, November 11 in 2018. Although Remembrance Day was declared a legal holiday like Canada Day and Victoria Day under the federal Holidays Act on March 1, 2018, provinces and territories determine which days are public holidays in their regions.
Ted Kenney
Changing one’s mind about retirement
May an employee who has resigned her position of employment by way of a notice of retirement later rescind her written notice of retirement? If so, under what conditions may she do so?
Sean Bawden
Q&A: 48-hour advance notification of cancelled shift coming into force on January 1, 2019
Establishing a process for the practical aspects of shift cancellation notifications in a company policy would go a long way to protect employers from paying a worker who claims that he or she did not know about the cancelled shift because he or she failed to check the method of communication for notifications.
Ava Z Moradi, JD