Category: Termination
Student Work Assistance and Return to Work Issues
Financial Assistance for Students One of the many impacts of the current pandemic is expected to be a drastic reduction in summer employment available for students across Canada. The Federal Government has recently announced an initiative to assist students with summer employment known as the Canada Student Service Grant. This will promote work experience by […]
Read MoreAddiction & An Employer’s Duty to Accommodate
The Divisional Court has released a decision that will have an impact on future arbitral and common law cases considering an employee’s addictive behaviour and related misconduct. In this case, the employee was an R.N. employed by a public hospital. She was observed by a co-worker taking medications from the hospital inventory and also using […]
Read MoreRemedies & ‘Just Cause’ Termination
The Remedies on Termination There are two basic remedies on termination. One is the common law remedy of wrongful dismissal based on the implied term of fair notice. The second is the statutory claim for the Employment Standards minimum payments of notice and severance pay. The notice claim under this statute is capped at 8 […]
Read MoreArticling Student Wins Aggravated Damages Award
One would expect that a law firm would be well versed in how to treat its employees fairly and respectfully. Like many cases in employment law, many employers fall short of this standard. When the employer is a law firm, it attracts unnecessary attention to the case, particularly one which has attracted an award of […]
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