Welcome. This article is about the leave of absence from work parents in Ontario take when they have children called Parental Leave. Employees in Ontario are entitled to (1) a leave of absence called Parental Leave and (2) money from the government called EI during that leave. This article is mostly about the former (1) …

There are many reasons to call a lawyer for employment law. Any workplace law issue can be consulted upon with a lawyer for employment law, but the most important ones are as follows: Termination A lawyer for employment helps employees who have been terminated from work by reviewing their severance package and then negotiating or …

Can an employee cancel a severance package release? Question: Can employees get out of signed severance packages? Answer: Everyone employment lawyer knows that an employee’s acceptance of a severance package; coupled with the signing of a final release is essentially a bar to that employee advancing a future claim for wrongful dismissal. Nevertheless, in a …

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Severance Pay Meaning Severance pay definition: Severance pay is defined as the money an employee gets when they are terminated from their employment without cause. In Ontario, there are two kinds of severance pay: Common law severance is also known as “reasonable notice”. Employees in Ontario are defacto entitled to common law severance unless they …

Workplace law is the legislation, common law, contracts and policies governing an employee and an employer. In other words, workplace law is the set of employment laws that apply specifically to employees and employers. Note that Employment Law is different than Labour Law. Employment Law is the law of non-unionized workplaces. Labour law is the …

An employee is entitled to common law notice in Ontario if they are terminated from without cause and they do not have an enforceable termination clause in their employment contract. By default, all non-unionized employees in Ontario (and Canada) are entitled to common law notice of termination of employment. Every contract of employment in Ontario …

In Ontario in 2024, “severance pay” has three different meanings to people, but they all mean essentially this: Severance is the pay someone gets when they are terminated from work. First, traditionally, severance means (1) “statutory Ontario severance pay”. Second, severance pay in Ontario can mean what most people think of when they picture severance, …

Is there a special rule for calculating severance for professionals? Are employees who are professionals such as lawyers, doctors, engineers, accountants etc. entitled to a reasonable notice ‘bump’ on account of their professional status? Yes – an employee’s professional status has been found to be an important factor increasing the reasonable notice period (i.e. severance) …

In order of appearance, from newest to oldest, here are the employment law cases that shaped Ontario and to some extent every jurisdiction in Canada in the 2010s: Amberber v. IBM Canada Ltd., 2018 ONCA 571: Here, the Ontario Court of Appeal provided some clarity on the enforceability of termination clauses especially in regard to …