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 …
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PREMIUM Van Dolder’s, Wayfair ‘at any time’ termination clauses upheld by Ontario’s top court
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… …
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PREMIUM Welder on one-year, fixed-term contract awarded nearly $43,000 after being fired six months into role
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… …
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Edmonton headstone seller constructively dismissed after being pressured to sign new contract
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 …
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PREMIUM Ambiguous termination clause sinks Avcorp severance limit, B.C. court awards 9 months
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has awarded a former supply chain manager nine months’ pay in lieu of notice after finding the termination clause in his employment agreement was… …
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PREMIUM B.C. court upholds three-year fixed-term contract in Roth IAMS engineering business sale
A British Columbia Court of Appeal has dismissed both sides of an appeal arising from a dispute between an Ontario engineering firm and a B.C. engineer who sold his consulting… …
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PREMIUM Veeva termination clause void, worker awarded 6 months’ notice plus stock options worth $90K
A senior product manager terminated by Veeva Software Systems is entitled to six months’ notice and compensation for stock options and restricted stock units that would have vested during the… …
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Ontario’s top court allows coalition to intervene in Van Dolder’s Home Team employment contract case
The Ontario Court of Appeal has granted the Income Security Advocacy Centre and Parkdale Community Legal Services leave to intervene as a coalition in an upcoming appeal concerning the enforceability …
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Two former mobile investment consultants at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) have been awarded common law reasonable notice after an Ontario court found their employment contracts contain… Free …
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Clean Water Works loses novel bid to void $350,000 termination pay order
An Ontario tribunal has rejected an employer’s attempt to escape a $350,000 termination payment by arguing that provisions never written into the employment agreement should be implied into it — …


