An Ontario tech executive who continued working for nine months without pay during a shareholder dispute has been awarded only two weeks’ termination pay, after a labour board found he… …
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PEI court allows worker to add wrongful dismissal claim after limitation period expires
A Prince Edward Island court has granted a former municipal executive permission to amend his statement of claim to include wrongful dismissal allegations, despite the claim being filed four months …
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Court upholds order for second discovery in City of London HR manager’s wrongful dismissal case
An Ontario Superior Court judge has dismissed the City of London’s appeal of an order requiring it to produce a second corporate representative for discovery in a wrongful dismissal case …
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PREMIUM Worker who hid new job for 4 months breached settlement, but didn’t void it: Ontario court
An Ontario court has ruled that a long-service employee who intentionally concealed his new job from his former employer for four months breached their settlement agreement but did not repudiate… …
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PREMIUM B.C. pharmacy’s bitter pill: $150K for dismissing 77-year-old worker after 45 years
A British Columbia pharmacy has been ordered to pay $150,000 in damages after wrongfully dismissing a 77-year-old front store manager who had worked at the business for 45 years. The… …
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PREMIUM Olymel’s counterclaim against sales director accused of downloading confidential files struck
An Ontario court has struck a meat packing company’s counterclaim against a former sales director accused of downloading confidential files, finding the pleadings lacked sufficient material facts but allowing the… …
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Ontario court orders wrongful dismissal mediation to proceed by videoconference
An Ontario judge has ordered mediation in a wrongful dismissal case to proceed by videoconference, ruling that there was insufficient evidence to demonstrate that an in-person meeting would be more …
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BC Hydro employee ordered to repay parental leave top-up after refusing to return to work
A British Columbia employee who declined to return to work following the suspension of the employer’s COVID-19 vaccination policy must repay more than $4,000 in parental leave benefits, the Civil …
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PREMIUM Firing of social media manager right before anniversary was calculated move to avoid severance: Court
An Ontario court has awarded a worker nearly $27,000 in damages after her employer terminated her employment just nine days before her first anniversary, in what the court inferred was… …
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PREMIUM Ontario court orders Edward Jones to answer discovery questions about executive’s cancer diagnosis
An Ontario judge has ordered Edward Jones Investments to answer questions about what company officials knew regarding a senior executive’s cancer diagnosis and when they knew it, in a wrongful… …