Howard Levitt: Some lawyers are promising greater awards for wrongfully dismissed employees in COVID-19 era. They're wrong
And is being relaxed about COVID-19 workplace protocols cause for discharge without severance? I will answer the first today. The second, next week. It has been Russian roulette for employers. If they retained their employees during the pandemic, many businesses would have dissolved financially. If they laid them off, they risked constructive dismissal cases. But when they fired them, they received the invariable letter from employee bucket shop contingency shops telling them that the severance pay formerly required has skyrocketed because of the pandemicâs impact. Every employer has rec...
Source: financialpost.com