Author: MacLeod Law Firm

Judge Awards Employee 30 Months’ Termination Pay

by MacLeod Law Firm | Feb 5, 2019 | For Employees

)If your employment is terminated after more than 30 years service, then you may be entitled to at least 30 months’ termination pay. This result happened in a recent case. The Facts Mr. Dawe was terminated without just cause after 37 years service when he was 62...

Do I Have to Accept a Demotion if My Job is Eliminated?

by Jason Wong | Apr 28, 2017 | For Employees

When an employee is terminated, the employee is required to minimize lost income by seeking alternative employment. What happens if your former employer offers to give you another job but at a reduced salary? Are you required to accept this demotion? This situation...

Another Termination Clause Bites the Dust

by Jason Wong | Apr 19, 2017 | For Employees

You may have signed an offer of employment or an employment contract before you started it work. If so, it could have a termination clause. Many termination clauses attempt to limit how much termination pay an employee will receive. As we have written before, if the...

Is My Termination Clause Good?

by Jason Wong | Mar 6, 2017 | For Employees

A termination clause in an employment contract states how much notice of termination an employer is required to provide an employee. The employer can provide working notice of termination or pay instead of working notice, but almost all employers provide termination...

Keeping Safe At Work

by Katelyn Weller | Apr 28, 2016 | For Employees

Today, April 28, is a National Day of Mourning across the country for workers who have been killed, injured or suffered illness as a result of work related incidents. For many of us, we spend the majority of our time at work. Five out of seven days a week are spent...

Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation: Assessing your risk

by Katelyn Weller | Apr 18, 2016 | For Employees

We often get calls from employees who are thinking about leaving their employment, have left their employment, or have been terminated, and are considering working for a competitor or starting their own business. They are often concerned about non-competition and...

Keeping Tips in the Servers’ Pockets – New Protections Under the Employment Standards Act

by Katelyn Weller | Apr 12, 2016 | For Employees

For servers, tips generally form a significant part of their income. Pooling tips is a common practice in the restaurant industry whereby a server is required to contribute a certain portion of his or her tips into the “pool”. The tips are then redistributed to other...

What’s in a name – Employee or Independent Contractor?

by Katelyn Weller | Mar 21, 2016 | For Employees

Have you been recently terminated and the company did not provide notice or pay-in-lieu of notice because you are an “independent contractor”? Sometimes organizations believe that it is more advantageous to categorize the working relationship as one of independent...

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Judge Awards Employee 30 Months’ Termination Pay

Do I Have to Accept a Demotion if My Job is Eliminated?

Another Termination Clause Bites the Dust

Is My Termination Clause Good?

Keeping Safe At Work

Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation: Assessing your risk

Keeping Tips in the Servers’ Pockets – New Protections Under the Employment Standards Act

What’s in a name – Employee or Independent Contractor?

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