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Showing posts with label Benefits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benefits. Show all posts
Saturday, 22 May 2021

The Judicial Consideration of Porky Pig

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I appreciate that I have not blogged very much in 2021. To say this year has been “busy” in the employment bar might be a touch of an unde...
Sunday, 26 January 2020

Quit While You're Ahead and Leave the Numbers Out of It

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Quit while you’re ahead and leave the numbers out of it. Those are the fundamental lessons from the decision of the Court of Appeal for ...
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Sunday, 26 February 2017

Court of Appeal Finally Brings Much Needed Clarity to Issue of Benefits in Contractual Termination Provisions

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(c) istock/Choreograph It’s here. On February 23, 2017, the Court of Appeal for Ontario released its much anticipated decision in Wood v...
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Sunday, 12 February 2017

Supreme Court of Canada Denies Leave to Appeal in Oudin: But Does That Really Mean Anything?

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(c) istock/kenta210 On February 2, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada denied the application for leave to appeal from the judgment of the ...
Sunday, 18 September 2016

Will Wood Finally Answer the Question of Benefits? There’s Hope.

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This post will break from tradition. Rather than be a post about something that has happened, it will be an anticipatory post about somet...
Sunday, 6 December 2015

“Benefits”: The Most Important Word in Ontario Employment Law

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What is the most important and expensive word in Ontario employment law? “Benefits.” That one single word has cost more employers more mo...
Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Termination from Employment While on Disability Leave

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There is never a good time to be fired from one’s job. However, some times are worse than others. A particularly bad time to be fired is ...
Sunday, 10 May 2015

Court Finds the Phrase “Any Amounts Paid” to be Fatally Ambiguous

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In the perhaps never-ending battle between employers and employees with respect to the issue of the enforceability of employment contracts...
Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Employer Unable to Rely on Company Policy Not Incorporated into Employment Agreement

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To what extent can employers rely on internal policies, not incorporated into an employment agreement, for determining employee rights and b...
Monday, 1 April 2013

Termination Provisions in Contract Unenforceable Without Continuation of Benefits

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In a decision released in October 2011, Stevens v. Sifton Properties Ltd. , 2012 ONSC 5508 (CanLII) , the Honourable Justice Ian F. Leach ...
Sunday, 25 November 2012

Poorly Drafted Employment Agreement Proves Costly

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If a termination provision in an employment agreement does not technically violate the provisions of the Employment Standards Act at the...
Saturday, 14 July 2012

The Requirement to Maintain Disability Benefits on Dismissal

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As regular readers of this blog may know, I have a certain affinity for the decision of the late Justice Echlin in Brito v. Canac Kitchens ...
Sunday, 10 June 2012

E-mail Entitles Employee

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A lesson to Human Resources personnel: beware what you e-mail.  In a decision released May 18, 2012, Bennett v. Sears Canada Inc. , 2012 ...
Friday, 8 June 2012

Dismissed Employees Still Entitled to Bonus

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Is an employee dismissed just before the employer declares a “discretionary bonus” still entitled to that bonus?  “Yes” says a recent d...
Thursday, 31 May 2012

Release Reaches Farther than Expected

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The phrase caveat signator means "beware what you are signing." It is an appropriate warning when signing a Full and Final Rele...
Saturday, 21 April 2012

Employer Cannot Dismiss CLC Employees Absent Due to Workplace Injury

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(c) istock/davidmariuz In an earlier post , I commented on the effect of O.Reg 288/01 on the doctrine of "frustration" with r...
Sunday, 15 April 2012

The Benefit of Benefits

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(c) istock/olm26250 An area too often overlooked in wrongful dismissal cases is that of disability benefits. Often, dismissed employees,...