ONSC: Employee who Lives in Ontario but Worked in Alberta Cannot Sue in Ontario

If you live in Ontario, but move to Alberta for work, can you sue for wrongful dismissal in Ontario if you get fired and then move back? That, essentially, was the question posed in the case of Christmas v. Fort McKay, 2014 ONSC 373 (CanLII).

Hotel Employee Gets Early Check-out from Ontario Lawsuit

If an employee works in the United States for a multinational corporation with its corporate head office in Ontario, can that employee sue her former employer in the Ontario courts for wrongful dismissal and violations of the Ontario Human Rights Code when she gets fired?

While the typical law answer will always be "it depends," in a decision released earlier this year, Sullivan v. Four Seasons Hotels Limited (2013), 2013 ONSC 4622, 116 OR (3d) 365, the Honourable Justice Sandra Chapnik of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice held that at least one employee could not.