A Royal Bank of Canada financial planner dismissed for cause has been awarded more than $2.5 million by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, which found the bank failed to… …
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B.C. court dismisses Investors Group director’s wrongful dismissal claim
A financial services professional who spent 14 years with Investors Group Financial Services Inc. has lost his wrongful dismissal claim, with the Supreme Court of British Columbia finding he accepted …
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Monk Office Supply ordered to pay fired controller $40,000 but B.C. court rejects aggravated damages
A corporate controller fired from Monk Office Supply Ltd. less than three months into the job has been awarded four months’ pay in lieu of notice, but was denied aggravated …
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Kootenay Wood Transport driver’s dismissal claim headed to trial in Alberta
A long-serving truck driver who says he was dismissed after a dispute over whether his vehicle’s tires were safe for a pre-Christmas haul must take his claim to trial, after …
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PREMIUM Response Biomedical loses bid to lift $646,000 garnishing order for dismissed CEO
A former chief executive dismissed by Response Biomedical can keep a prejudgment garnishing order worth $646,418.86 against the company, after the Supreme Court of British Columbia refused to set it… …
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When a worker’s stalker becomes the employer’s problem
by Todd Humberby Todd HumberThe insurance producer’s manager knew what to say. When she told him, in August 2021, that a client’s representative had taken to following her car home along the highway, he …
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PREMIUM Insurance firm that ignored employee’s stalker loses $116K wrongful dismissal fight
An insurance brokerage in British Columbia wrongfully dismissed a producer who had been stalked for years by a client’s representative, the Supreme Court of British Columbia has ruled, awarding her… …
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PREMIUM Olympic Wholesale supervisor awarded 33 months after wrongful firing, including bump for bad-faith conduct
A night shift supervisor fired for alleged time theft has won 33 months’ pay in lieu of notice after the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found his employer, Olympic Wholesale,… …
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PREMIUM Court orders fired Fairwater executive to produce tax, phone records in wrongful dismissal fight
A former president and chief investment officer suing Fairwater Capital for wrongful dismissal must produce his 2019 income tax return, hand over unredacted cellphone records and sit for further questioning,… …
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New Brunswick court sets aside default judgment in wrongful dismissal case against Belfor
The Small Claims Court of New Brunswick has set aside a default judgment obtained by a former worker in a wrongful dismissal case, giving Belfor (Canada) Inc. the chance to …


