Employees can sue their employer for various wrongs, most notably: Generally, employers are no different than any other kind of person (corporations are persons) and they can be sued in all the same ways anyone else can be sued. However, regarding personal injury, generally, an employee cannot sue their employer and instead must proceed to …
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The cost of an employment lawyer depends on the type of matter and the experience of the lawyer. Minimal risk, commonplace matters like typical wrongful dismissals can be conducted via an accessible contingency fee arrangement, which means the client only pays a fee upon successful completion of the services and this is usually calculated as …
Unfair dismissal is not a legal concept in Ontario or anywhere else in Canada. Simply put, there is no such thing as an ‘unfair dismissal’. Rather, you might have heard of ‘wrongful dismissal’ or ‘unjust dismissal’. These are real concepts of illegal terminations. Wrongful dismissal is when any non-unionized employee is terminated without enough severance. …
With remote work as common as it is today, many employees and employers are still wondering, is slacking off or running an errand during the workday time theft? The law is still unclear about remote work. Working from home only became the norm for office workers less than two years ago and it takes years …
How Lawsuits work in Ontario — the Rules of Civil Procedure If you’re filing a lawsuit or being sued, it’s common that your case will start at the Superior Court of Justice, which hears most civil proceedings in Ontario. This Court handles cases related to employment law disputes, commercial disputes, personal injury, bankruptcy, and more. …
Stare decisis – what does it mean? Like a vast majority of the terms used in law, stare decisis is a Latin term. According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, the term’s literal translation is “let the decision stand”. Stare decisis refers to a principle of precedent. According to this principle, the rules that judges created in earlier decisions in the court, are …
What is a cease and desist letter? A cease and desist letter is a communication someone sends an individual or company to stop performing a specific action and to not do the action ever again. “Cease” means stop. “Desist” means don’t do it again. Accordingly, a cease and desist letter is telling someone to “stop” …
In Ontario, what is defamation? What are the elements of defamation? What are the defences to defamation? Find out by reading this article! In this article, ‘plaintiff’ refers to the person suing for defamation and ‘defendant’ refers to the person accused of defamation. What is Defamation? Defamation is a statement that injures a third party’s …