Should you Accept that Severance Package? You were terminated from your job. Your employer offered you a severance package. Is it fair? The answer to this question often turns on whether you previously signed an employment contract. More specifically, did you sign...
Employers Must Honestly Negotiate Employment Contracts We previously reported on the duty of honesty created by the Supreme Court. In 2014, the Supreme Court held that the duty of honest performance requires the parties to a contract not to lie or mislead each other...
Wrongful Dismissal: The Latest from Ontario’s Court of Appeal Wrongful Dismissal: The Latest from Ontario’s Court of Appeal Even though Ontario judges have been using the same test for 55 years to determine how much notice of termination an employee is entitled to...
Employment Law Trends in Ontario Employment Law Trends in Ontario In this blog I will reflect on two employment law trends that are developing in Ontario and outline how the MacLeod Law Firm is responding to these trends. Ontario’s Workplaces are More Regulated than...
The Cost of Not Reinstating a Woman to her Job After She Completes a Pregnancy Leave The Cost of Not Reinstating a Woman to her Job After She Completes a Pregnancy Leave We receive calls from women on pregnancy leave who have been told that their job is no longer...
The Cost of Not Reinstating a Woman to her Job After She Completes a Pregnancy Leave The Cost of Not Reinstating a Woman to her Job After She Completes a Pregnancy Leave We receive calls from employers who have hired a replacement for an employee who has gone on...
Fired: Now should You Look for a New Job? The Duty to Mitigate Terminated employees who sue their former employers for wrongful dismissal have a duty to look for a new comparable position. This is called the duty to mitigate. If an employee is offered comparable...
Human Rights Awards: Update on the Ceiling We reported previously on the decision of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal in Kelly v. University of British Columbia. Dr. Kelly had been diagnosed with ADHD. As a result of discrimination by the University of...