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The Ontario Superior Court grappled with the question of whether an employer is entitled to deduct STD and LTD benefits from wrongful dismissal notice award damages.

The Ontario Court of Appeal in Ruston v. Keddco Mfg (2011) Ltd., 2019 ONCA 125

An employee who believes they have been wrongfully dismissed from their employment can seek damages in court for both the fact of their dismissal and the manner in which they were dismissed.

The Court decided an application to hear a pastor’s wrongful dismissal claim, which may impact employers inside and outside of ecclesiastical contexts.

A recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court saw the court award $50,000 in punitive damages to a plaintiff in a wrongful dismissal action.

Any group of eligible workers in Ontario can form a union. If 40% of the membership signs union membership cards, the Ontario Labour Relations Board will hold a vote to determine whether the union

As we all know by now, the U.S. Capitol was stormed by a mob of President Trump's supporters on Wednesday January 6, 2021.

The Federal Court of Appeal in Wilson v. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., 2015 FCA 17 ("Atomic Energy") confirmed that federally regulated employers can dismiss non-union employees without cause.

The Alberta Court of Appeal confirmed the test for constructive dismissal and reaffirmed that the onus is on the employee to decide whether they accept the new terms of ...

A recent Ontario court decision confirms the approach under Canadian law to cases where an employer fails to pay the contracted severance amounts: if the employer does not comply with the terms of the contract...

As a general principle, employees who have been wrongfully dismissed have a duty to mitigate their damages by taking reasonable steps to secure comparable alternative employment.

In Croke v. VuPoint Systems Ltd., the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a motion judge's decision that an employee's failure to comply with his employer's vaccination requirements...

The trial decision received much attention because of the unprecedented $1.46 million in damages awarded to the Plaintiff for wrongful dismissal.

In the recent case of Penteliuk v CIBC World Markets Inc, the Ontario Superior Court held that an employee whose promised promotion was taking longer than expected was not constructively dismissed.

Dependent contractors are becoming an increasing portion of the working population, and an Ontario court recently confirmed that protections available to them are at the top end of the scale.

In a recent case, the Inner House of the Court of Session ruled that a dismissal may be fair where an employer takes action against an employee which amounts to a dismissal and does so without having considered the legal consequences, or on a mistaken view of what those consequences would be.

Previous decisions in Canada have confirmed that off-duty conduct of an employee may form the basis for termination from employment.

This has been a common theme in recent months for the Employer's Edge, but once again, an employer's contractual termination language...