Employment Contracts

Provinces and territories should limit the use of non-compete agreements, which can keep workers from changing jobs or starting a business even when courts would never enforce the clauses, according …

Two employees fired without cause by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce are entitled to common law reasonable notice after the Court of Appeal for Ontario found the bank’s employment contracts… …

A self-represented worker who says he resigned after his employer proposed a contract requiring him to hand over all his intellectual property has been ordered to provide more detail about …

A recording studio executive who renegotiated his employment contract to secure a share of songwriting royalties must take his dispute with the company to arbitration, after the Ontario Superior Court… …

A Kelowna rugby apparel company that credited a worker’s overtime to a time bank instead of paying it out has lost its appeal of an order to pay him, after… …

A moulder technician fired by Ivor Forest Products after nearly five years is entitled to six months’ pay in lieu of notice, the Supreme Court of British Columbia has ruled, …

Nearly every management-side employment lawyer I’ve spoken to says roughly the same thing about employment contracts: consistency is the whole point. One template, applied evenly, defensible in front … Free …

Two Ontario workers who argued the termination clauses in their employment contracts were void have lost their claims for common law damages, after the Court of Appeal for Ontario found… …

A welder terminated six months into what she argued was a one-year fixed-term contract has been awarded $42,709.92 by the Alberta Court of Justice, plus interest, after the court found… …

The Court of King’s Bench of Alberta has ordered an Edmonton memorial company to pay 15 months’ compensation to a long-serving sales manager who resigned after being pressured to sign …