Employment Contracts

A beauty esthetician was awarded 10 months’ reasonable notice after being terminated without cause. It’s a textbook lesson in how not to present a worker with a new employment contract. …

Courts will often look past the wording in a contract to determine the true nature of an employment relationship. A sales executive for Fusion Nutrition was ruled to be an …

A worker’s attempt to get a bigger severance package than his employment contract allowed has been shot down by a B.C. tribunal. Anthony Weall was hired by The Dugout Drop-In …

The termination clause in an employment contract for a sales rep at Oracle has been ruled invalid by an Ontario court for being overly broad. Aftim Nassar began working for …

A part-time music teacher who worked for an employer for 13 years was a contractor and not entitled to severance pay, the Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT) of British Columbia has …

It’s the case of the office applications: A sales manager who used PowerPoint to lobby her bosses for a new job was fired by Zoom after her pitch was refused. …

A sound engineer was entitled to keep a $2,000 down payment for audio work on a movie, a British Columbia tribunal has ruled, despite the fact the company that hired …

An Ontario executive has been awarded nearly $430,000 in damages in a case where the court was heavily critical of overly complicated language in an employment contract. Jack Maynard was …

An Ontario employer did nothing wrong when it deducted more than $2,000 from one of its worker’s paycheques for an outstanding debt, a small claims court has ruled. Debt Control …

Getting the language wrong in an employment contract can be a very costly mistake for employers. A recent Ontario Court of Appeal ruling underscores that fact – and reinforces a …