Ontario is proposing to strengthen rules around mass layoffs to include greater protections for employees who work remotely.
Labour Minister Monte McNaughton made the announcement Monday in Kitchener, home to a lot of the province’s tech jobs, a sector that has seen a number of mass layoffs.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter.
He says the changes would give remote workers the same eight-week minimum notice of termination or pay-in-lieu as other employees. McNaughton says it could increase how much a worker receives in a layoff by as much as eight times, as the minimum severance pay for an individual layoff is one week, whereas the minimum for a mass layoff is eight weeks.
The labour minister says he will be introducing legislation that would include broadening the definition of an establishment under the Employment Standards Act to include employees’ remote home offices.
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