“It’s really important not to make assumptions when an employer has employees on a layoff, as is having good communication with those employees so they know what’s going on and you know what they’re doing.”
So says employment lawyer Ishat Reza of Zubas Flett Law in Toronto, after an Ontario court found that an employer who assumed a laid-off worker resigned when she found another job wrongfully dismissed the worker.
“The onus is on the employer to be the one who ensures that communication is happening during a layoff so they don’t have misunderstandings like this,” says Reza.
