Canada on Employment and Workforce Wellbeing

Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic created a tidal wave of change across Canada, workplaces continue to grapple with its long-term impacts and the evolving legal landscape it reshaped.

Four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are beginning to see judicial and arbitral clarity regarding employer conduct during this unprecedented period.

In a recent arbitral decision, Birla Carbon Canada Ltd. v Teamsters Local Union No. 879, the Arbitrator upheld the dismissal of an employee who returned to the workplace prematurely...