Typically, short-term employees with only a few years or less seniority get proportionally more severance than their longer-standing peers. The reason short service employees get proportionally more severance than longer standing employees is that there is a considerable buffer of around, generally, one and a half to three months’ severance for all short employees even …
Reasonable Notice
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 …
There is no such thing as ‘at will employment’ in Canada. The concept of ‘at will’ employment simply doesn’t exist here. In Canada, under the common law, absent just cause for dismissal, employees are per se hired for an indefinite term and they are thus entitled to reasonable notice of termination or pay in lieu. …