Labour Pains

The law concerning the rights and responsibilities of Ontario’s employers to dismiss an employee “for cause” , and the rights of employee ...

Does an employer’s failure to confirm that an employee will unconditionally receive their minimum statutory entitlements on termination, i...

It is the end of May 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a reality for approximately 15 months in Ontario. The legal system has changed i...

Can an employee extinguish his statutory right to severance pay by way of a full and final release signed in the context of a share sale?...

It is a well-known fact that employers must provide their employees with “reasonable notice” of the termination of their employment. But,...

You know what’s fun? Trying to make sense of whether the court is going to give effect to a contractual termination clause. And, in the c...

In the 1997 movie “Wag the Dog” the spin doctors hired to get the President re-elected release an ad campaign with the slogan “ Never chan...

(c) istock/miluxian It is often said that, “a magician never reveals his secrets.” If that is true, then it is a good thing that I am no...

On May 27, 2017, I presented a paper to the County of Carleton Law Association’s annual solicitor’s conference titled “Mo Money Mo Proble...

If an employment contract makes no mention of the payment of statutory severance in the event of a termination without cause, is the cont...

This post will break from tradition. Rather than be a post about something that has happened, it will be an anticipatory post about somet...

From time-to-time a decision will come along that will leave me not only confused, but frustrated. Wyllie v Larche , 2015 ONSC 4747 is o...

Does an employer’s offer of legally required severance pay, provided that the employee signs a full and final release, mitigate against a...

How are trial judges to calculate the amount of reasonable notice to which a suddenly unemployed employee is entitled? In yet another dec...

A lot has already been said about Target’s abrupt decision to close all of its Canadian stores; but one story has dominated headlines more...

How does requiring an executive to purchase shares in his employer’s company affect the employee’s reasonable notice period in the event ...

For years this blog has taken the position that if a termination provision in an employment contract does not technically violate the pro...

Is overstating one’s credentials as a salesperson and then failing to complete a single sale of the employer’s wares within 40 days of co...

Many people who get fired while pregnant, on maternity or disability leave assume that the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (“HRTO”) is t...

If an employee provides notice of his intention to resign on a future date, can his employer legally terminate his employment (i.e. fire h...