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

Jason Wong — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:59:45 +0000

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 was recently considered by the Ontario Court of Appeal The Case: Due to a restructuring, the employer terminated an employee who had…

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Another Termination Clause Bites the Dust

Jason Wong — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:13:02 +0000

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 termination clause is poorly drafted, the judge will not enforce it and order the employer to pay more termination pay..

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Is My Termination Clause Good?

Jason Wong — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 14:34:09 +0000

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 pay instead of working notice. A termination clause that is poorly written will not be enforced by a court. If the clause is not…

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