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In November 2024, Bell Canada initiated another round of layoffs, affecting employees across various departments. Reports from the Bell subreddit indicate that layoff notices...

On November 29, 2022, the British Columbia Court of Appeal released Yates v. Langley Motor Sport Centre Ltd., in which the Court of Appeal ruled that payments received by an employee under the...

Canadian workplaces are full of Joe Bidens — older employees who are past their prime, show cognitive decline, and are impossible to get rid of

After reorganizing a business, employers must take care that the terms of settlement and new employment they offer to their employees do not provide a basis for a dismissed employee to reasonably refuse to take the position in order to mitigate damages for wrongful dismissal.

Employees who received CERB following termination of employment will no longer have those benefits deducted from any award of wrongful dismissal damages.

In its recently released decision of Stewart v. Elk Valley Coal Corp, 2017 SCC 30, the Supreme Court of Canada held that an employer had cause to dismiss Ian Stewart, a mine worker...

Employer began negotiating a buyout of the employee's contract. Before any deal was made, the employee went on sick leave.

The recently released Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision, Gent v Strone Inc. reiterates the importance of an employee's duty to mitigate damages by accepting an offer of re-employment from his or her former...

Employers can breathe easy once again knowing that common law reasonable notice is still capped at 24 months, absent exceptional circumstances.

Canada's highest court has recently remanded a case back to the Ontario Court of Appeal for disposition dealing with an employee's entitlement to damages relating to his ...

In a recent decision, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the termination for cause of a manager with 30 years of service for smacking a female co-worker's buttocks.

After a three-week trial, the Ontario Superior Court has held that the Royal Bank of Canada had after-acquired cause to terminate a senior banker, Aidan Mittra...

In a recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, two plaintiffs were each awarded wrongful dismissal damages in the amount of 26 months reasonable notice.

The Court found that WestJet (the "Defendant") unreasonably applied its vaccination policy to proceed with a just cause termination of an unvaccinated worker

In what may be the first of many COVID-19 related constructive dismissal claims in Ontario, the Superior Court of Justice determined that employees deemed to be on infectious disease...

In a recent decision, an employee was awarded 28 months of reasonable notice upon his constrictive dismissal.

In Benjamin v. Cascades Canada ULC, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice reviewed the law surrounding an employee's duty to mitigate their common law reasonable notice damages arising from wrongful dismissal.

In the recent decision involving Services Entretien d'édifices Allied Inc., the Labour Relations Board of Quebec cancelled the terminations imposed on five maintenance employees for theft and reserved its jurisdiction to determine the appropriate remedy and damages.