Article No. 18 OVERTIME Part VIII of the Employment Standards Act of Ontario (the “Act”) requires that an employer provide overtime pay of at least one and one-half times the...

Article No. 10 CAUSE If an employer terminates an employee its obligation is to provide “notice” or “pay in lieu of notice” except where it can prove cause. Proving “cause”...

Article No. 9 WRONGFUL DISMISSAL AND THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT An employer’s obligation to provide reasonable notice upon termination or wrongful dismissal damages is by no means absolute. There will certainly...

Article No. 7   RESIGNATION Where it is not the employer who has terminated the relationship by terminating the employee, but rather the employee who has resigned or quit his...

Article No. 6 RELEASE An employer who dismisses an employee without cause is obliged to provide notice of termination or pay in lieu thereof. The failure to do so constitutes...

Article No. 4 The Alberta Provincial Court’s decision in Locke v. Chandos Construction Ltd. addressed a number of interesting legal issues.  Mr. Locke was employed as a Construction Superintendent with...

Article No. 3 CAUSE Not every employee who faces termination of employment will have an action for wrongful dismissal. A termination is “wrongful” when an employee is terminated without cause...

BAD FAITH DAMAGES A wrongfully dismissed employee who is terminated without just cause has a legal entitlement to reasonable notice of termination or pay equal to the appropriate notice period....

NOTICE It has become increasingly commonplace for individuals to be told by their employers that as a result of corporate restructuring or re-organization, shortage of work or cutbacks, they are...