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Severance Pay Calculation Under Employment Standards Act based on Ontario Payroll says OLRB

by Doug MacLeod | Feb 14, 2019 | For Employers

Under section 64 of the Employment Standards Act (“ESA”), an employee with five years’ service is entitled to one week severance pay for each year of service (to a maximum of 26 weeks) in addition to notice of termination if “the employer has a payroll of $2.5 million...

Another termination clause doesn’t withstand scrutiny

by Nadia Halum | Jan 28, 2019 | For Employees

Another week, another termination clause found to be unenforceable. As we have written before, termination clauses can have a significant effect on how much you receive in terms of notice or pay-in-lieu-of notice upon termination. This is because there is a...

ESA Termination Clauses: Another One Bites the Dust

by Doug MacLeod | Jan 22, 2019 | For Employers

If you include a termination clause in your employment contracts that limits notice of termination to Employment Standards Act (“ESA”) minimums, then read on. This blog summarizes a case decided last month where the courts again refused to enforce an ESA termination...

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...

Keeping you Posted on Mandatory Postings in the Workplace

by Hina Ghaus | Nov 20, 2018 | For Employers

As an employer, there are several documents that you must post in your workplace. Some postings are mandatory for all workplaces, while others depend on the nature of the business and the hazards present in the workplace. This blog describes some of these mandatory...

Working Notice: When working more than 9 to 5 makes it hard to find a way to make a living

by Nadia Halum | Nov 19, 2018 | For Employees

Sometimes, rather than receiving a severance package, employees are provided “working notice” that their employment is coming to an end. In other words, your termination date is set to a fixed date in the future and you are expected to work throughout this...

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Severance Pay Calculation Under Employment Standards Act based on Ontario Payroll says OLRB

Another termination clause doesn’t withstand scrutiny

ESA Termination Clauses: Another One Bites the Dust

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?

Keeping you Posted on Mandatory Postings in the Workplace

Working Notice: When working more than 9 to 5 makes it hard to find a way to make a living

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