An arbitration decision released January 12, 2022 has joined the persistently growing list of decisions upholding COVID-19 vaccination mandates, as well as the discipline contemplated for those employees who fail to meet the mandate’s requirements. In Teamsters Local...
In Jean-Sébastien Leroux v. Proex Inc., 2022 ONSC 319, an employee made a mistake that no employee should make: they used their work email address to communicate with their wrongful dismissal lawyer. This is dangerous. If your employer is able to access your work...
Did the employee abandon their employment, or was their employment terminated by the employer? That was an essential question in the recent British Columbia Supreme Court decision, Wong v Polynova Industries Inc. We canvassed job abandonment in an earlier blog post,...
McGuinty v. 1845035 Ontario Inc. (McGuinty Funeral Home) is a case unlike many others, in the sense that it involved a particularly large award of wrongful dismissal damages: $1,274,173.83. There are not many scenarios in the context of employment law which could...
Employers should expect to provide some compensation to employees they terminate without cause. The amount of compensation depends on a number of factors, such as the nature of the employment, the availability of similar employment, the age of the employee, and the...
