{"id":8191,"date":"2022-03-17T16:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T20:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/?p=8191"},"modified":"2022-03-17T16:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T20:44:47","slug":"deductibility-of-cerb-in-wrongful-dismissal-claims-is-still-unsettled-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/deductibility-of-cerb-in-wrongful-dismissal-claims-is-still-unsettled-in-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Deductibility of CERB in Wrongful Dismissal Claims is Still Unsettled in Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This latest decision released yesterday reveals that the deductibility of the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (&#8220;CERB&#8221;) when calculating wrongful dismissal damages is still unsettled.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the court dismissed the case, but as all Judges are supposed to do, an assessment of damages was undertaken just in case there was a successful appeal.\u00a0 When the court went through the exercise of quantifying damages, the issue of the deductibility of the CERB collected by the former employee arose.\u00a0 However, the court couldn\u2019t continue with its analysis because the employee never provided any details on how long he drew CERB or how much money he received from that source.<\/p>\n<p>The court also noted that there was a lot of conflicted case law on the point, and none at an appellate level:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-viibes-parag=\"61\" data-viibes-start=\"60\" data-viibes-end=\"59\"><span style=\"color: #6b0b00;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CERB DEDUCTED<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><em>Hogan v. 1187938 B.C. Ltd.<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/bc\/bcsc\/doc\/2021\/2021bcsc1021\/2021bcsc1021.html\">2021 BCSC 1021<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><em>Shalagin v. Mercer Celgar Limited Partnership<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/bc\/bcsc\/doc\/2022\/2022bcsc112\/2022bcsc112.html\">2022 BCSC 112<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><em>Yates v Langley Motor Sport Centre Ltd.<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/bc\/bcsc\/doc\/2021\/2021bcsc2175\/2021bcsc2175.html\">2021 BCSC 2175<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #6b0b00;\">CERB NOT DEDUCTED<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><em>Iriotakis v. Peninsula Employment Services Limited<\/em>, 2021 ONSC 99;<\/li>\n<li><em>Snider v Reotech Construction Ltd.<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/bc\/bcpc\/doc\/2021\/2021bcpc238\/2021bcpc238.html\">2021 BCPC 238<\/a>(B.C.Prov.Ct.);<\/li>\n<li data-viibes-parag=\"64\" data-viibes-start=\"63\" data-viibes-end=\"62\"><em data-toggle=\"dropdown\">Slater v Halifax Herald Limited,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/ns\/nssc\/doc\/2021\/2021nssc210\/2021nssc210.html\">2021 NSSC 210<\/a>(N.S.S.C.);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-viibes-parag=\"64\" data-viibes-start=\"63\" data-viibes-end=\"62\">With this, the judge pointed out that it was <em>\u201capparent that no appellate court in Canada has addressed the issue in any reported case to date.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 The court was also concerned that counsel did not address the issue of the deductibility of CERB payments through any comprehensive submissions.\u00a0 As such, the judge felt that <em>\u201cit would be inappropriate and unfair to determine the question of the deductibility of CERB payments from the damages without having the benefit of full submissions by counsel.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Given that the judge could not quantify the damages with precision, the judge instead took the position that if his decision was upset on appeal, it would likely be the case that the matter would have to be referred back to a trial where the plaintiff could then provide a full accounting of the CERB payments he received, and full legal submissions could be made by counsel.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Miller v Ontario Potato Distribution Inc.<\/em><\/strong>, 2022 ONSC 1490<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onsc\/doc\/2022\/2022onsc1490\/2022onsc1490.html\">https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onsc\/doc\/2022\/2022onsc1490\/2022onsc1490.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This latest decision released yesterday reveals that the deductibility of the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (&#8220;CERB&#8221;) when calculating wrongful dismissal damages is still unsettled. In this case, the court dismissed the case, but as all Judges are supposed to do, an assessment of damages was undertaken just in case there was a successful appeal.\u00a0 When&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/deductibility-of-cerb-in-wrongful-dismissal-claims-is-still-unsettled-in-law\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deductibility of CERB in Wrongful Dismissal Claims is Still Unsettled in Law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133],"tags":[200],"class_list":["post-8191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","tag-deductibility-of-cerb","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deductibility of CERB in Wrongful Dismissal Claims is Still Unsettled in Law - 360Mediations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Up to yesterday, the courts have released conflicting decisions on the deductibility of CERB, with no appeal decision as of yet to clarify.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/deductibility-of-cerb-in-wrongful-dismissal-claims-is-still-unsettled-in-law\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deductibility of CERB in Wrongful Dismissal Claims is Still Unsettled in Law - 360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Up to yesterday, the courts have released conflicting decisions on the deductibility of CERB, with no appeal decision as of yet to clarify.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/deductibility-of-cerb-in-wrongful-dismissal-claims-is-still-unsettled-in-law\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-17T20:44:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-17T20:44:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/COURT-DECISIONS-360MEDIATIONS-1x1-1.png?fit=406%2C322&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"322\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David M. 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