Employers asking workers to take pay cuts or use vacation for sick days
Cineplex Odeon employees have been asked to take a 60% reduction in pay or face a layoff. Dollarama wants workers to use vacation days if they miss work due to illness. Casinos refusing to top up EI payments for their employees.
The Toronto Star’s Sara Mojtehedzadeh spoke to Lior Samfiru, an employment lawyer and partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, about the rights of employees during the COVID-19 pandemic as job loses continue to mount in Ontario.
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Lior Samfiru
Lior Samfiru is a Founding Partner of Samfiru Tumarkin LLP and Practice Leader for the firm's Labour & Employment Law Group. His experience in countless successful cases and mediations on behalf of employees and employers, as well as his continued advocacy for the rights of workers, makes him one of the most skilled and sought-after labour and employment lawyers in Canada.
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