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ARTICLE · 03 FEBRUARY 2016

Is Poverty An Excuse To Give Employees Less Notice?

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The question of whether your company's financial circumstances effect the notice period to which a terminated employee is entitled has been answered with a resounding "no" in Ontario.

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Michael Lerner
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The question of whether your company's financial circumstances effect the notice period to which a terminated employee is entitled has been answered with a resounding "no" in Ontario.

The recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in Michaela v. St. Thomas of Villanova Catholic School, 2015 ONCA 801 has re-affirmed that the relevant factors in determining notice entitlement continue to be the circumstances of the terminated employee, the level of responsibility, expertise, age, education and training and opportunity for re-employment. 

The court clearly enunciated in this decision that "an employer's financial circumstances are not relevant to the determination of reasonable notice in a particular case: they justify neither a reduction in the notice period in bad times nor an increase when times are good."

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