Blog for Employees
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We invite you to review some of our blogs posts on these subjects below and encourage you to keep watching as we post new ones.
Creating a Harassment-Free Workplace: A Practical Guide
Introduction In today's business environment, encouraging a harassment-free workplace is essential to creating a healthy and productive company culture as well as being required by law. Any kind of harassment has the potential to lower [...]
B.C. Minimum Wage Increase Announced: What You Need to Know
The minimum wage in B.C. has been steadily rising since 2015. On June 1, 2024 the minimum wage in B.C. will increase to $17.40 an hour, which represents a 3.9% increase. This increase is being [...]
A Path Towards Pay Equity? – The Pay Transparency Act and New Obligations on Employers
According to Statistics Canada, British Columbia has one of the biggest divides between pay for men and women in Canada. In an effort to increase pay equity and decrease the gender pay gap in British [...]
Privacy in the Workplace: Can your Employer Spy on You?
Remote and hybrid work models have blossomed under the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This change in the labour market has spurred employers to consider how employees can be effectively managed while defying location-based employment. [...]
Clarification on differing treatment of discrimination based on family status
The recent BC Supreme Court case of Gibraltar Mines Ltd. v Harvey, 2022 BCSC 385 provides some clarity to how the issue of discrimination based on family status may be handled in the employment context [...]
UPDATE- Temporary layoffs and the Employment Standards Act of B.C.
May 6, 2020 By: Azadeh Taghizadeh, Glendinning and Lawrence Smith The British Columbia government has extended the temporary layoff period to 16 weeks under the Employment Standards Act (“Act”) to financially help businesses and allow [...]