When an employee is terminated, the employer must submit to Service Canada a Record of Employment (“ROE”) on behalf of the employee. …
Low Punitive Damages Awarded At Trial
In Budge v Dickie Moore Rental Inc, 2017 CanLII 468 (ON SCSM), the Ottawa Small Claims Court considered the right …
$25,000 Reasons to Mitigate your Damages
This case demonstrates the old idiom – don’t go throwing good money at bad. Here, in the recent case from the …
Are legal costs determined on an issue by issue basis?
It is well known that the losing party to a wrongful dismissal lawsuit must pay a portion of the successful party’s …
What Should I do if my Employer Stopped Paying me?
Last week, a potential client called and told me they hadn’t been paid in several months. They were employed by …
When its not clear an Employee has Resigned
When is a Resignation a Resignation? A resignation is only enforceable if an employer, who should have doubted an employee’s …
Most Important Employment Law Cases of 2016
Paquette v. TeraGo Networks Inc.: Ontario Court of Appeal held that an explicit contractual requirement for “active employment” when incentive …