Wrongful Dismissal

An Ontario court has awarded a former investment banker more than $2.5 million in damages after finding his employer wrongfully dismissed him to make way for new leadership in its… …

An Ontario court has awarded a former IBM Canada executive more than $680,000 in damages after finding the company wrongfully dismissed him and improperly cancelled restricted stock units and stock …

An Ontario court has ordered a truck driver to conduct a thorough search and produce a complete affidavit of documents showing his mitigation efforts after he was terminated by M&C… …

An Alberta court has dismissed an employer’s appeal to strike out a wrongful dismissal lawsuit, ruling that a two-week overlap between two claims for the same termination did not constitute …

A British Columbia tribunal has ordered a student newspaper to pay $2,100 in notice damages to a managing editor it terminated without cause, finding the worker was a dependent contractor …

An Alberta court has dismissed an employer’s appeal to strike out a wrongful dismissal lawsuit, ruling that briefly overlapping court filings did not constitute an abuse of process. The Court …

The B.C. Supreme Court has rejected a request to disqualify the trial judge in a long-running wrongful dismissal case against the province, finding no reasonable apprehension of bias arising from …

A British Columbia Provincial Court judge has awarded an employee $13,076.96 in severance after finding his termination was not for just cause because the employer failed to follow proper progressive… …

An Ontario Superior Court has dismissed a motion for summary judgment in a wrongful dismissal case, finding that material credibility issues required a full trial despite both parties agreeing the …

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… …