Typical severance package Canada In determining what a reasonable severance package in Ontario is, we must discover four factors about a specific employee:  Once we have determined each of the above four factors, we compare those factors against publicly available completed lawsuits where the lawsuit was about an employee suing their employer with relatively similar …

1. Decide whether you want to hire a worker in Canada or someone else located internationally The world is your oyster. With remote hiring, you can hire someone from anywhere in the world, and there are many benefits for doing so. With the internet’s tools, you have unlimited access to diverse individuals with specialized skills. For instance, …

What Is Vacation Pay?  Vacation pay is money paid to employees for the time they take off work. Think of it this way – if you work 50 weeks in a year, your well-deserved two weeks of vacation should not be unpaid. Instead, you should receive payment on your vacation. This is vacation pay!  In …

What is a toxic workplace? A toxic workplace is a work environment where mean-spirited behaviour among coworkers reigns supreme. A toxic workplace is where workplace drama becomes destructive to mental health and affected employees become unproductive. A toxic workplace is a place of work that becomes so untenable that no reasonable person would return (source). …

What legally prevents a bad boss or employer? The common law of employment in Canada, provincial statutory employment standards, provincial human rights laws and the Canadian law of contracts prevent your boss from doing many different bad things to you at work.  A boss is a representative of the employer, and therefore an employer is …

Once your business has interviewed and selected a suitable candidate, the next steps are offer and acceptance of a job offer for that candidate. For the purposes of this article, I will call this step “onboarding”.  However, please note, this article will only discuss the technical, legal aspects of onboarding an employee (i.e., offer and …

There are no legal requirements for declining a job offer*. Rather, the only requirements for declining a job offer are courtesy and professionalism.  Below, I will discuss what to know and how to decline a job offer and I will also provide an example/template/sample letter declining a job offer. Why You Should Decline A Job Offer …

Congratulations. You were just offered a new job. You have been provided with an offer letter/email and maybe even a new employment contract to sign.  What to do next? How do you accept that new job offer?  The Short Summary Legally, all you have to do to accept a job offer is communicate in some way your …

Who Gets Long Term Disability? Long term disability (sometimes known as “LTD”) is a type of insurance some employers offer their employees as a “group benefit”. Many employers who offer LTD to their staff pay all of their employee’s monthly premiums, while some employers require that their employees contribute to all or part of their …

Until the late nineties, employees could, generally, only sue their employers for severance upon termination. There was, generally, no way for an employee to also sue his employer for the stress caused by especially harsh or “bad faith” conduct at the time of dismissal. Wallace Damages  Then, in 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada, in …