Why You Should Get Your Severance Package Reviewed
Before accepting a severance package, it’s important to get it reviewed by an employment lawyer to ensure you’re not giving up any of your entitlements.
The Everchanging Impact Of Termination Clauses On Your Entitlements Upon Termination
An employee’s entitlements upon termination continue to change because of the way courts interpret termination clauses.
Workplace Bullying: Does My Employer Have To Intervene?
An employer is responsible for investigating any complaints of workplace bullying and harassment made by employees / Occupational Health and Safety Act
Court of Appeal Allows Employee to Withdraw Seemingly Clear Resignation
Employees may retract their resignation, and if an employer does not accept it, they can be found to have wrongfully dismissed the employe
Battle of the clauses: what does it take for the Court to uphold a termination clause?
Two recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice decisions shed light on what types of termination clauses will be upheld and which will be deemed unenforceable.
Court of Appeal finds yet another termination clause to be unenforceable
In the recent decision of Andros v Colliers Macaulay Nicolls Inc., the Ontario Court of Appeal (“OCA”) found yet another termination clause to be unenforceable. In this decision, the OCA reaffirmed and clarified various principles surrounding the enforceability of such clauses.
Workplace Harassment Provisions Coming to the Canada Labour Code
The Canada Labour Code will be introducing workplace harassment and violence provisions in 2020