by Stacey R. Ball | Apr 22, 2023 | Cause for dismissal, constructive dismissal, employee or dependent contractor, Employment Contracts, Employment Law, General
What is Mitigation? When an employee is terminated without cause, they have a duty to make reasonable attempts to find comparable employment in order to mitigate their losses from the dismissal. There are various legal issues and scenarios that make the duty to... 
by Stacey R. Ball | Feb 23, 2023 | Cause for dismissal, Wrongful Dismissal
When an employee is terminated without cause, they are offered a severance package. While many people believe that common law notice is generally one month per every year of service, this is not entirely accurate. In determining what the common law notice period is, a... by Stacey R. Ball | Feb 5, 2023 | Cause for dismissal, constructive dismissal, Wrongful Dismissal
To help millions of Canadians, the Federal Government started the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) program, which provided recipients with funding while they were unable to go back to or find new work. A portion of the CERB recipients was also terminated.... 
by Stacey R. Ball | Feb 1, 2023 | Cause for dismissal, Employment Contracts, Employment Law, General
When someone is hired, there is an agreement between the employer and the employee. This agreement sets out the terms and conditions of employment. In simple terms, it outlines the services the employee will provide the employer, and the compensation the employee will... 
by Stacey R. Ball | Aug 26, 2022 | Cause for dismissal, General
In an unjust dismissal case, the presumptive remedy an adjudicator can award is reinstatement with back pay. However, under certain circumstances, the adjudicator may decide that returning the employee back to the workplace is unwise. Therefore, the award can be... 
by Stacey R. Ball | May 29, 2022 | Cause for dismissal, General
Vaccine related decisions continue to be made as we move closer to the halfway point of 2022. We have discussed a number of these decisions in earlier blog posts: see here, here, here, and here, to name a few. Today we write about a decision made on April 4, 2022,... 