The importance of an employee’s duty to mitigate their damages by taking reasonable steps to find new employment cannot be overstated. Where an employee is found to have failed to mitigate their damages, their entitlement to damages may be significantly…

We all know that “character of employment” is one of the core factors when assessing the period of reasonable notice, but how much of an impact does it have?

Employers across Ontario are double-checking their contracts since the Ontario Court of Appeal released its judgment in Waksdale v Swegon North America Inc., earlier this month. The court held that if an Employment Agreement contains a termination-with-cause provision that breaches…

In the recent case of Sosnowsk v. MacEwen Petroleum Inc., the Ontario Court of Appeal confirmed that there must be exceptional factual circumstances in order to extend the deadline for commencing a wrongful dismissal claim.

A recent arbitration decision is helpful for employers dealing with accommodation requests, particularly with respect to a request to be transferred to a different location.

It is not uncommon for employers to attempt to obtain closure and finality by offering some additional compensation to an employee at the end of the employment relationship in exchange for a full and final release.

Earlier this year, the Ontario Divisional Court upheld a decision which confirmed that an employer’s occasional flexibility with regard to an employee’s hours of work did not displace the employer’s right to enforce the agreed upon hours at a later…