Labour Pains

If an employment contract contains language that purports to allow the employer to terminate an employee for cause- and such language cont...

Are these words automatically fatal to a contractual termination provision post the Court of Appeal’s decision in Waksdale v. Swegon North...

If an employment agreement contains one provision concerning the way by which one’s employer could terminate the agreement/employment wit...

Is the amount of time spent as an “independent contractor” an appropriate fact for the court to consider when calculating the reasonable ...

If a contractual termination clause provides for “the greater of” ESA entitlements and a set amount, will the guarantee of “the greater o...

Is the sole requirement to rebut the common law presumption of termination only upon reasonable notice that the contractual termination c...

2018 has been, compared to some other years, relatively quiet with respect to employment law jurisprudence. Sometimes that can be a good ...

Given all the other noise about what it takes to make a contractual termination clause legally binding, one can be forgiven for overlooki...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: An employer attempts to limit, by employing a contractual termination clause, its obligation to ...

Must an employer provide its employees with a clear warning that it intends to provide no more than the minimum amount of notice prescrib...

Silence is golden. According to that proverbial saying it is sometimes better to say nothing than to speak. So what does this ancient sa...

(c) istock/Choreograph It’s here. On February 23, 2017, the Court of Appeal for Ontario released its much anticipated decision in Wood v...

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