Court of Appeal Gives Clarity to Termination Clauses
As we have written in the past, the enforceability of termination clauses is a hotly contested area of employment law. Employers who draft proper termination clauses in employment contracts can...
View ArticlePreparing an Employee Severance Package: Five Reasons to Hire A Lawyer
A lawyer can explain your obligations under the Employment Standards Act. Did you know there are employees who are not entitled to vacation pay, overtime pay, termination pay and severance pay under...
View ArticleEmployer Obligations: Pregnancy and Parental Leaves
We often get calls from employers asking about their rights and obligations toward employees seeking pregnancy and parental leaves. Applicable Legislation About 90% of employees are provincially...
View ArticleAlberta Court of Appeal Denies Incentive Compensation to terminated...
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...
View ArticleNegligent misrepresentation during recruitment process costs employer $83,000
Providing misleading information to an employee during the recruitment process about the eligibility for an employee benefits program cost an employer $83,000 Feldstein v 364 Northern Development...
View ArticleEmployment Standards Alert: The Cost of Doing Business in Ontario Just Went Up
The Ontario government’s much publicized overhaul to the province’s employment standards legislation will take effect as early as December 3, 2017. For the most part, vulnerable employees and employees...
View ArticleA Benefit of Working Past 65: Employee Benefits Must Continue
A recent human rights decision may result in Ontario employers paying higher premiums for group employee benefit plans. Mr. Talos was a secondary school teacher and decided to keep teaching after he...
View ArticleValuing Employee Pensions in Wrongful Dismissal Cases: A Boring but Important...
A long service, older worker is terminated. Under the terms of the individual’s pension plan, the employer is not permitted to continue his participation in the pension plan. So the question arises:...
View ArticleDisputes Over Bonus Entitlements: Two Decisions on the “Active Employment”...
Where an employee is terminated or resigns, what is the effect of a bonus plan that requires the employee to be “actively employed” at the time the bonus is paid out in order to receive it? The...
View ArticleDoug’s Top 10 Employment Law Stories of 2018
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...
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