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Employment Contracts: They Should Keep Giving and Giving

by Doug MacLeod | Feb 19, 2019 | For Employers

I trumpet the benefits of employment contracts every chance I get. I often write and speak about these benefits. Two Case Studies In the last two weeks, I received calls from two clients who benefitted from an employment contract that I wrote several years ago. Right...

Temporary Layoff Update: Can An Employee Refuse a Recall?

by Doug MacLeod | Feb 5, 2019 | For Employers

Contrary to popular belief, a temporary layoff usually constitutes a wrongful dismissal which requires an employer to pay the laid off employee termination pay. This general rule does not apply in all situations such as when your employment contract states that the...

Wrongful Dismissal: All You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

by Doug MacLeod | Jan 22, 2019 | For Employees

What Is A Wrongful Dismissal? If an employer does not provide you with adequate notice of termination, or pay instead of notice, then you have been wrongfully dismissed. In most cases, employers provide no notice of termination; you are called into a meeting and told...

Wrongful Dismissal Update: Recent Case Law Increases Legal Uncertainty

by Doug MacLeod | Jan 8, 2019 | For Employers

Recently, it has become increasingly difficult for employment lawyers to assess an employer’s potential legal liability in connection with an employee termination. The law is pretty straightforward but predicting how a judge will apply the law to a specific...

Will Changed Workplace Laws Increase Competitiveness for Ontario Businesses?

by Doug MacLeod and Hina Ghaus | Dec 27, 2018 | For Employers

“We’ve heard loud and clear from businesses across Ontario that job growth starts with cutting the burdensome, job-killing red tape that is driving jobs and investment out of our province … We are making Ontario open for business.” Premier Ford in his closing...

Doug’s Top 10 Employment Law Stories of 2018

by Doug MacLeod | Dec 27, 2018 | For Employers

In 2018 there were many new developments in the employment law world. Here are my top 10 stories of the year: 1. Bill 148 Bit the Dust Ontario’s Employment Standards Act received its last major update in 2000. During the last three years, the Liberal provincial...

How Important Are The Deadlines In Your Severance Package?

by Doug MacLeod | Dec 6, 2018 | For Employees

You are terminated from your job and your employer offers you a severance package. They give you one week to sign the offer and ask that you sign a full and final release confirming that there will be no further payments. Are you obligated to sign and return the offer...

Disputes Over Bonus Entitlements: Two Decisions on the “Active Employment” Requirement for Bonus Payouts

by Hina Ghaus | Nov 27, 2018 | For Employers

Where an employee is terminated or resigns, what is the effect of a bonus plan that requires the employee to be “actively employed” at the time the bonus is paid out in order to receive it? The Ontario Court of Appeal released two decisions, only one year apart, that...

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Employment Contracts: They Should Keep Giving and Giving

Temporary Layoff Update: Can An Employee Refuse a Recall?

Wrongful Dismissal: All You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

Wrongful Dismissal Update: Recent Case Law Increases Legal Uncertainty

Will Changed Workplace Laws Increase Competitiveness for Ontario Businesses?

Doug’s Top 10 Employment Law Stories of 2018

How Important Are The Deadlines In Your Severance Package?

Disputes Over Bonus Entitlements: Two Decisions on the “Active Employment” Requirement for Bonus Payouts

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