Toronto Partner Mathias Link comments on the opportunities and risks for employers considering changing their employee benefit plans in reaction to the current economic uncertainty in an article published in Canadian HR Reporter.
“When you’re trying to reduce costs, you may think, ‘Okay, well I’ll leave the salary or the hourly wage alone, but I’ll just achieve some cost savings through reducing benefits.’ Well, those are terms and conditions of employment, and depending on how significant they are (…) that may itself give rise to a constructive dismissal claim,” said Partner Mathias Link.
