Workers' Rights in BC, Part 2 (Recorded Webinar)

Описание: Lawyers Jessica Forman and Jim Wu of Forte Workplace Law answer audience questions about workers' rights in British Columbia. Current to May 2024. Show notes at https://www.peopleslawschool.ca/webin...

Hours of work and getting paid
3:50 Whether a worker has the right to choose their work schedule.
6:25 Whether a salaried worker with an annual billing target who receives a bonus for hours billed over target is entitled to overtime pay.
9:15 Whether an employer can require a worker to work overtime hours and, instead of paying them time and a half for the overtime hours, require them to take equivalent hours off from work another day.
10:15 What to do if your employer says they can only pay you in cash, under the table.

Leaves and benefits
11:45 How reducing a worker’s hours from full time to part time affects their vacation pay.
12:55 Whether an employer must allow a worker to take unpaid vacation time.
14:25 Whether a worker who is injured (and can no longer do their job) and takes a permanent medical leave is entitled to severance.
17:20 Whether an employer can exclude workers who work 20 hours per week from benefits given to workers who work 35 hours per week.

Working conditions and human rights
19:05 Whether it’s legal for workers at the same organization to be treated differently under work from home policies.
20:45 Where to go for help for your manager’s rude and condescending behaviour if your employer doesn’t have a human resources department.
22:35 How an employer can meet their duty to accommodate a worker who has a mental health disability and is underperforming at work.
25:40 Suggestions for approaching prospective employers when you have a persons with disabilities designation, and whether prospective employers must accommodate persons with disabilities.

Changes to the job
28:30 Whether the new owner of a company can fire an existing worker or reduce their salary.
31:00 Whether an employer can reduce a worker’s wage by 30% because business is down and they can’t afford to pay what they had been paying them.
32:35 Whether an employer can require a worker to work full time or be fired, and where to go for help.

Leaving a job
35:00 Whether a worker who received a relocation allowance that was conditional on staying at a job for two years must repay the allowance if they quit before two years.
36:10 When a worker can apply for employment insurance and when an employer must give them a record of employment when a company shuts down.
36:50 Whether an employer can restrict a worker from working within a 5 km radius of their business, or from opening their own business, for a few years after termination of their employment.

Dealing with problems
39:55 What a worker can do if they want to make a complaint to the Employment Standards Branch (which can take over a year) but they don’t want to leave their job.

Live questions
43:00 What the law says about perception of behaviour and conduct in the workplace.
45:15 Whether it’s fair, in a contract of employment, to have two termination clauses (one for during the probation period and another for afterwards) as well as a requirement for a worker to give four weeks notice if they quit.
46:45 How long employers are required to retain discipline records and whether a worker can request the removal of those records.
48:25 What a worker can do if they disagree with their manager’s evaluation.
50:00 What responsibility an employer has if they ask a worker to cancel their vacation — for example, for nonrefundable travel.
51:35 Whether a worker’s oral indication they would like to resign in a few months counts as notice.
53:30 Whether a worker has a legal right to leave early from their workplace to pick up their child from school and continue their work from home.
55:25 Whether an employer can unilaterally rescind an accommodation that they provided to a worker.