Employment Law Show: Ontario – S10 E48

Episode Summary

Do you have to accept a temporary layoff? Are construction workers eligible for severance? Employment Lawyer Lior Samfiru, Partner and national practice leader at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, answers those questions and more on the Employment Law Show. 

LISTEN BELOW to Ontario’s premiere radio show about employment law and workplace rights featuring the province’s leading employment lawyers. You can hear the show live, Mondays to Thursdays, on 640 Toronto and 980 CFPL in London at 6:30 p.m. ET, as the hosts take calls from listeners and provide vital answers to employees and employers. 

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Show Notes

• Lior talks about severance pay for construction workers and informs listeners that many non-unionized employees in the construction industry mistakenly believe they are not owed severance pay upon termination.
• An employee on a layoff as a result of COVID-19 calls in to ask if they have to wait for their employer to recall them to work or if they can treat their temporary layoff as a termination?
  
• A concerned employee writes in to ask about the difference between the Ministry of Labour calculations for severance pay and common law entitlements.

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