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Proposed Amendment to Lay-Off Provisions of Employment Standards Act, 2000

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Heenan Blaikie
On December 10, 2009, Bill 239, An Act to amend the Employment Standards Act, 2000 with respect to lay-offs (pdf) was introduced.  If passed, the Bill would change the manner in which weeks without work are counted during a lay-off.  Under the Employment Standards Act, 2000, employees are deemed to have been terminated if the length of their lay-off exceeds a certain length in a given time period.  Currently, weeks that an employee is locked-out by his or her employer are excluded from that calculation.  Bill 239 would amend the Act so that the period of time that an employee is not working due to a lock-out is no longer excluded.
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