Tag: Severance package

What’s in a name? That which we call a release

by Nadia Halum | Mar 21, 2019 | For Employees

As we’ve written before, when an employee is terminated and offered a severance package, they are almost always asked to sign a release agreement in exchange. A release agreement, as the name suggests, releases the employer from liabilities for employment-related...

Is Your Severance Package Fair?

by Doug MacLeod | Feb 25, 2019 | For Employees

We have reviewed thousands of severance packages. If your employment has recently been terminated and you have been provided with a severance package, then read on. Time Limit to Accept Package Most employers give an employee 5 to 7 days to accept a severance package....

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...

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...

What to do when you receive a release from your employer?

by Nadia Halum | Sep 26, 2018 | For Employees

When an employee is terminated and offered a severance package, they are almost always asked to sign a release agreement in exchange. A release agreement, as the name suggests, releases the employer from liabilities for employment-related claims. Thus, after an...

Reviewing a Severance Package: What to Expect from an Employment Lawyer

by Doug MacLeod | Mar 7, 2018 | For Employees

You have just been terminated. You have been given a week or so to accept a severance package but you don’t know if it is fair. That is where we come in. We Tell You Whether Your Termination Package is Fair We only do employment law and we review 100s of severance...

How to prove mental distress

by Nadia Halum | Feb 20, 2018 | For Employees

As we have written before, if an employer mistreats an employee either during their employment or at the time of their termination, that employee may be entitled to aggravated damages (or damages for mental distress). The most common situation in which these damages...

Alberta Court of Appeal Denies Incentive Compensation to terminated Employees; Ontario Court of Appeal Does Not

by Doug MacLeod | Jun 6, 2017 | For Employers

As we have written in the past, there is significant legal uncertainly as to whether an employee is entitled to receive incentive compensation during the common law reasonable notice period. An Alberta Court of Appeal decision appears to have rejected the Ontario...

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What’s in a name? That which we call a release

Is Your Severance Package Fair?

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

How Important Are The Deadlines In Your Severance Package?

What to do when you receive a release from your employer?

Reviewing a Severance Package: What to Expect from an Employment Lawyer

How to prove mental distress

Alberta Court of Appeal Denies Incentive Compensation to terminated Employees; Ontario Court of Appeal Does Not

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