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ARTICLE · 02 AUGUST 2012

Boss’s "Stern Talk", "No Nonsense" Style Did Not Cause Constructive Dismissal

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An Ontario judge has decided that an employee who resigned due to her boss’s stern talk and businesslike management style was not constructively dismissed.

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Adrian Miedema
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An Ontario judge has decided that an employee who resigned due to her boss's stern talk and businesslike management style was not constructively dismissed. This will be a welcome decision to employers.

The employee, who worked for a travel agency, went off work on a "stress leave". When she returned to work, she presented the owners with 17 "expectations" that she wanted met upon her return to work. The expectations include having a "comfortable, even temperature in the office", "even distribution of workload", "no more derogatory comments or putdowns about my work or my personal appearance", and "a little more relaxed atmosphere in the office". She also complained that company uniforms were "funereal".

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