Remote and hybrid workers will have the same notice or severance entitlements as office workers during mass layoffs in Ontario. Read on.
The mass layoffs clause in the ESA applies when 50 or more people at an “establishment” are terminated within a four-week period.
But the ESA doesn’t recognize your remote office as an “establishment” for the purpose of providing notice during a mass layoff. This acknowledgement will be especially important in the tech sector, which has been hit by a wave of mass layoffs recently. And it looks like there are more to come with the crash of Silicon Valley Bank and its inevitable ripple effect.Article contentMichele Austin was one of those laid off from Twitter Canada.
There is much to be said about the need to humanize the termination process, especially in the tech sector.
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