The CFA community is here to support you through this difficult time. On this page, you will find Business Continuity Resources and General Resource Materials provided by CFA and CFA members to help you navigate through these turbulent times.
BUSINESS CONTINUITY RESOURCES:
- BDC Webinar – How to cope with the impacts of COVID-19 on your business (March 25, 2020)
- Best practices for retail stores during COVID-19
CANADA REVENUE AGENCY:
CANADIAN PAYROLL ASSOCIATION:
CBC NEWS:
EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CANADA:
Government of Canada
KPMG
ONTARIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE:
THE PLATZ GROUP:
Retail Council of Canada
CFA RESOURCES:
ARTICLES OF INTEREST FROM CFA MEMBERS
AXIS Integrated:
- DETERMINING YOUR INFECTIOUS DISEASE RISK DURING COVID-19 OUTBREAK
- COVID-19: FINANCIAL REPORTING AND AUDIT IMPLICATIONS
- Cash Flow strategies and Government Incentives in the time of COVID-19
- Tax Considerations for Difficult and Uncertain Times
- FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FISCAL STIMULUS PACKAGE IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19
- TAX ALERT - FEDERAL AND QUÉBEC GOVERNMENTS EXTEND INCOME TAX FILING AND PAYMENT DEADLINES
- U.S. PROVIDES 90-DAY EXTENSION TO PAY INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATE TAXES DUE TO COVID-19
- Determining your infectious disease risk during the COVID-19 outbreak
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP:
- COVID-19 Impact: Ontario’s Expanded Infectious Disease Emergency Leave and Implications for Temporary Layoffs and Constructive Dismissals
- COVID-19 IMPACT: FURTHER DETAILS ON THE CANADA EMERGENCY COMMERCIAL RENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
- WHILE LIMITATION PERIODS HAVE BEEN EXTENDED BY SOME GOVERNMENT ORDERS, THE DEADLINE TO UPDATE YOUR FDD HAS NOT BEEN EXTENDED
- COVID-19 Impact: Temporary Special Measures Relating to the Work-Sharing Program
- FAQS FOR FRANCHISORS AND FRANCHISEES: COVID-19 AND THE WORKPLACE
- COVID-19 Impact: NEW JOB PROTECTED-LEAVES FOR EMPLOYEES
- COVID-19 Impact: EXPANSION OF EI BENEFITS AND OTHER FINANCIAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
- COVID-19 Emerging FAQs for Canadian Employers
Dale & Lessmann LLP:
- COVID-19 Economic Response Plan
- Unique Challenges for Employers
- Canadian Travel Restrictions Due to COVID-19
- Template Letter to Landlord for Rent Relief
Dentons
Deloitte:
- • This tool is built to ask guiding questions that provide specific funding opportunities that meet your small businesses needs. Let’s find a program
- COVID-19 Government financing programs for small to medium-sized Canadian business
- COVID-19 – new fiscal measures
- COVID-19 – Additional measures to support individuals and businesses businessesCanadian
- COVID-19 - Details on the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy released
Fasken:
- COVID-19: Workplace Government Updates: A Cross-Canada Review
- Pandemic Planning For Employers: Responding to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
Fishman Canada
FranchiseBlast
Gowling WLG:
- Layoff and termination provisions of Ontario ESA partially suspended during COVID-19
- COVID-19: CCCS CURATES CYBER SECURITY RESOURCES FOR BUSINESSES FACING HEIGHTENED RISK
- Lifting the lockdown: Employers, are you ready for the gradual resumption of activities in Québec?
- Canadian tax: The new $71-billion wage subsidy
- COVID-19, employment insurance and supplemental benefits
- Alberta orders closure of non-essential businesses<
- Gowling WLG’s COVID-19 resource centre – includes all the latest legal updates for businesses on COVID-19
- Cyber insurance in the COVID-19 landscape
- Despite current period of COVID-19-related deadline relief, don’t delay new trademark filings
- Canadian Tax: the New 75% Wage Subsidy
- Guide to COVID-19 federal & provincial relief programs
McCarthy Tetrault LLP:
MNP LLP:
- Government and Tax Alerts | Wage Subsidy Program
- Business Resilience | Pragmatic, effective strategies to help your business navigate the COVID-19 crisis - Cash Flow
- Recovery | What You Need to Know About New Support Programs for Entrepreneurs
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP:
- Restaurant & Foodservice Reopening Guidelines
- Retail Reopening Guidelines
- The Employer’s COVID-19 Return to the Workplace Playbook
- Government announcements reopening businesses across Canada
- The Employer’s COVID-19 Return to the Workplace Playbook
- Implementing a COVID-19 Health and Safety Policy - Considerations for franchisors
- Restaurant franchise systems – Tips for pivoting your business model to focus on delivery and take-out during dine-in prohibitions
- Franchise disclosure obligations during a pandemic
- Implementing a COVID-19 Health and Safety Policy - Considerations for franchisors
- Introducing or expanding third party food delivery services in response to provincial mandatory restaurant closures
Pitblado LLP
- COVID-19 and Franchising
- Force Majeure, Frustration, Cancellation, Material Adverse Change
- Considerations for a Business Owners' Premises
Sherrard Kuzz & CFA:
- COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions to Assist Employers
- Managing Layoffs and Terminations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sotos LLP:
- Covid-19 Has Interrupted Your Restaurant Operations – Are Your Losses Insured?
- Urgent Matters Bulletin
- Crisis Management For The Hospitality Industry – Your Plans In Action
- Informational Circular for Businesses and Employers – Government Programs to combat challenges during the COVID 19 crisis
- COVID-19 and Cybersecurity
- Managing the Impact of Coranavirus on your Dealership
- Ontario Job-Protected Leave for Employees
- Planning Ahead: Coronavirus and Managing its Impact on Franchise Operations
- Ontario Announces Emergency Order Regarding Price Gouging
- Recission in the Time of COVID-19
Todd Cohen:
