Are you:
- A single parent who needs to take time off work to care for your sick child?
- Wondering what your legal entitlements are?
- Worried about asking your employer for time off for fear of reprisal?
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Yes, We Found Another Way to Invalidate Your Termination Clause
If you’re an employment law nerd – or worse, have had to actually deal with a termination – then you are well aware that it is open season on termination clauses. It began with Waksdale (which we covered here),
Ontario Court of Appeal sides with Fixed-Term Employee
A recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal examined the intersection of two areas of employment law: termination clauses and fixed-term contracts. The decision reinforces the trend of Courts interpreting employment contracts to the benefit of the employee
Ontario Courts Continue to Strike Down Improperly Drafted Termination Clauses
Wrongful Dismissal Claim + Turning Down Reasonable Work = Sacrificing Severance Entitlements
Stuart Rudner here with another Rudner Law Employment Law update. I want to talk about what happens if someone loses their job, brings a claim for severance, but turns down a job that would otherwise be seen as reasonable and
Your Termination Clause May Be Invalidated “At Any Time”
It’s no secret that courts are highly protective of employee rights, and that while the pendulum tends to swing back and forth over time, we are currently in a pro-employee era with an apparent open season on termination clauses.
If
2023: Employment Law Year in Review
Our 2022 Year in Review began by noting how March 17, 2022, marked two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, as we enter into March 2024, you’d be in good company if you can’t quite believe
Building Services Providers as Employers
Consider this scenario: your company wins a contract to provide cleaning services for a building. The company that previously held the contract had 10 employees that provided cleaning services for the same building.
- Is your company required to hire all
Locked Up: They Won’t Let Me Out (For My Shift)
What happens if someone is in jail and can’t make it to work? Can they be fired? Or is their contract of employment frustrated? Or does the employer have to keep their job open for them?
In a recent decision,
OHRC Finds Fighting Between Co-Workers Who Are Relatives Is Not Reprisal
In Leason v. ADAMANDA INC. o/a Dairy Queen Grill and Chill, Huntsville, the applicant brought a reprisal complaint against the respondent employer. In that case, conduct that might have been unlawful in most cases was found not to