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Wrongful Dismissal Update: How to Reduce Termination Pay for Employees Who Earn Variable Compensation

by Doug MacLeod | Mar 19, 2019 | For Employers

Some employees receive a large percentage of their total compensation in variable compensation. A much litigated issue is whether the employer is required to pay variable compensation to a terminated employee during the applicable notice period and if so how is this...

Judge Awards Employee 30 Months’ Termination Pay

by MacLeod Law Firm | Feb 5, 2019 | For Employees

If your employment is terminated after more than 30 years service, then you may be entitled to at least 30 months’ termination pay. This result happened in a recent case. The Facts Mr. Dawe was terminated without just cause after 37 years service when he was 62...

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...

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...

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...

Independent Contractor Owed Notice of Termination

by Nadia Halum | Nov 1, 2017 | For Employees

One common misconception is that, unlike employees, independent contractors are not owed notice of termination. In one recent case from Ontario, an employer was forced to pay an independent contractor for notice because of the way the termination clause was drafted in...

Five Reasons to Ask an Employment Lawyer to Review Your Severance Package

by Doug MacLeod | Mar 9, 2017 | For Employees

We have reviewed hundreds of severance packages on behalf of employees. Some of these packages are fair and some are really unfair. We can tell you whether we think your package is fair. And in many cases, we can help you negotiate a better severance package. To...

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Wrongful Dismissal Update: How to Reduce Termination Pay for Employees Who Earn Variable Compensation

Judge Awards Employee 30 Months’ Termination Pay

ESA Termination Clauses: Another One Bites the Dust

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

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

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

Independent Contractor Owed Notice of Termination

Five Reasons to Ask an Employment Lawyer to Review Your Severance Package

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