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Are Executives Entitled to Variable Compensation after being Terminated?

by Doug MacLeod | Aug 7, 2019 | For Employers

If your organization pays executives for performance and doesn’t want to pay an executive during the applicable notice period because they are not performing, consider having an employment lawyer review your plan first.

(Yet) Another Termination Clause Bites the Dust

by Doug MacLeod | Jul 16, 2019 | For Employers

An employer should make it clear that the termination clause in an employment contract applies when an employee is promoted.

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...

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...

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 a Judge Enforce the Termination Clause in Your Employment Contract?

by Doug MacLeod | Aug 14, 2018 | For Employers

An employer can significantly reduce the amount of termination pay that it would otherwise owe an employee by including a termination clause in an employment contract.

The Benefits of Failsafe Provisions

by Nadia Halum | Jul 17, 2018 | For Employers

The Ontario Court of Appeal recently released a decision on the enforceability of termination clauses in employment agreements that contain failsafe provisions. Background A “failsafe provision” is a portion of a termination clause that provides that, regardless of...

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...

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Are Executives Entitled to Variable Compensation after being Terminated?

(Yet) Another Termination Clause Bites the Dust

Another termination clause doesn’t withstand scrutiny

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

ESA Termination Clauses: Another One Bites the Dust

Will a Judge Enforce the Termination Clause in Your Employment Contract?

The Benefits of Failsafe Provisions

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

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