An article by Campbell Clark
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals made an election promise to pass a law to protect employers from being sued when they fire unvaccinated workers.
Many of the employers who get hit with such a lawsuit will settle to avoid litigation, said Lai-King Hum, founder of Hum Law, a Toronto firm specializing in labour and employment law. Employers in Ontario have the right to let employees go, but the question is whether dismissing them for being unvaccinated constitutes cause, and under what circumstances, she said. If not, the employer could be liable for weeks or months of pay, perhaps up to 24 months in some cases.
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