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The defendant Ivanov, a licensed real estate agent, dismissed the plaintiff Slepenkova from her position as a real estate sales person when the plaintiff refused to amend her employment agreement.

In the recent BC Supreme Court judgment of Lefebvre v. Gisborne Holdings Ltd., 2023 BCSC 2231 ("Lefebvre"), the Court reaffirmed the need for employers to exercise caution when considering just cause termination...

On June 29, 2016 CCP blogged about the Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Oudin v. Centre Francophone de Toronto where a termination provision was upheld...

In a recent decision the Superior Court of Quebec refused to award a termination indemnity to a 75-year-old employee due to his failure to mitigate his damages following the cessation of his employment.

Martin Smith, the managing partner of the Ottawa office of McCague Borlack LLP, with the able assistance of Desneiges Mitchell and Rachel Leck, associates, successfully reduced a multimillion-dollar wrongful dismissal claim brought by a terminated plaintiff.

Fixed term employment contracts can be useful. Employers can hire an employee for a specific period of time (like a maternity leave) or for a project with a set end date.

On March 15, 2019, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in Merrifield v. The Attorney General of Canada. The Court's decision is an important, and welcome, finding for employers.

Unfortunately, there is no easy answer to this frequently posed question.

In a recent decision, the British Colombia Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of a long-service employee following a series of confidentiality breaches.

BC Supreme Court confirms the lower threshold for dismissing an employee without notice during their probationary period.

A series of Ontario cases dating back to 2012 has put into issue the question of what does, or doesn't, make a termination provision enforceable.

Recently, the Supreme Court of British Columbia decided another case that considered the impact of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit on wrongful dismissal damage awards.

Throughout both the employer's investigation and the grievance arbitration, the grievor denied all culpability.

A recent decision of the BC Court of Appeal provides a cautionary tale for BC employers seeking to remedy a potential wrongful dismissal.

In a recent interim decision of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, adjudicator Jennifer Scott found that miscarriage could constitute a "disability".

Absent a contractual term to the contrary, an employee who has been terminated from employment has a "duty to mitigate" and search for alternative employment.

A landmark decision of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT), Decision No. 1227/19, has taken away Judith Morningstar's