Employment Law Show: Ontario – S11 E30

Episode Summary

Can an employee be forced to work overtime? Employment Lawyer Lior Samfiru, co-managing Partner and national practice leader at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, answers this question 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 on Mondays to Thursdays at 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

• Employee returns from medical leave: Employees should provide their employers with a doctor’s note detailing all possible restrictions when they are ready to return to work. Employers must provide accommodations to an employee with a medical condition and restrictions. Employers that fail to accommodate an employee have violated human rights and could face legal damages.
• Imposed overtime hours by an employer: Employers are not permitted to make significant changes to the terms of employment without an employee’s consent. A major change can be considered a drastic change in schedule, relocation, pay cut, etc. Employees that have had major changes imposed upon them can consider constructive dismissal.
• Let go due to discriminatory reasons: Employees cannot be let go for discriminatory reasons, such as age, gender, race, etc. Terminations as a result of discriminatory reasons are human rights violations and employers could face additional damages. Employees can be terminated for any other reason as long as adequate severance pay is paid.

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