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B.C. Employment Standards Variances of 13 Week Temporary Lay Offs

• September 11, 2020
• Susan Kootnekoff
• Image: "Unemployed" by jronaldlee is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Earlier this summer, the British Columbia government extended the Employment Standards Act (ESA) temporary layoff provisions to a maximum of 24 weeks for cases in which the COVID-19 emergency is a cause of all or part of the layoff. That...