For many years construction employees in Ontario struggled with determining what they were owed upon termination. There are many misconceptions surrounding severance pay, as well as adequate overtime pay, misclassifications and other employment rights. In order to offer helpful insights for employees, Samfiru Tumarkin LLP created the Pocket Employment Lawyer.
Lior Samfiru, an employment lawyer and co-founding Partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP spoke to Daily Commercial News on the tool and what it provides for employees searching for answers.
“With respect to construction, I think the point has to be made that oftentimes there’s this misconception that somehow when it comes to employment law, it’s the Wild West for construction employees, that the laws somehow don’t apply or don’t apply in the same way to people in that industry,” Samfiru explains.
Samfiru states that construction employees can seek advice and protections from the Ministry of Labour for some workplace disputes, but not severance entitlements.
“I can tell you that every single day, every single week, every single year, hundreds of people in that industry lose their jobs, don’t get paid anything, and they assume that that’s just the way it is. That is so clearly incorrect…our courts over the past 160 years have established the rules and the parameters as to how to calculate severance and what someone is owed in that situation.”
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