Severance

Wrongful dismissal does not mean what you think it means. ❌ Wrongful dismissal does not mean that an employee was wrong to fire someone.  ✅ Wrongful dismissal means an employee was not provided with enough reasonable notice of their termination when they were fired. In other words, wrongful dismissal is when an employee was not …

What is severance? Severance means the same thing as “notice”, or “termination pay” or “reasonable notice”, so when we speak about severance, know that we are also talking about “notice”, or “termination pay” or “reasonable notice”. Severance, or “notice”, or “termination pay” or “reasonable notice”, all mean this: the amount of pay an employer must …

Employment law mediator Barry Fisher posed 10 questions about employment law and the post-coronavirus world to the Ontario employment law bar. I will try and answer each question in this article. 1. The longer these temporary layoffs continue the more employees will seriously look at the temporary layoff = termination argument. Yes, I agree. Certainly, …

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 …

In Ontario in 2023, “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) …

Severance pay works by the employer providing you pay in lieu of it having to give you advanced “notice” that your employment will be terminated. For example, let’s say your employer has to give you six months’ notice. Severance pay is just a cheque for six months pay instead of you being told you will …