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By Matt Lalande, Lalande & Company Lawyers | 3 Minutes Read February 15, 2012

Court again confirms no upper limit with damages for non-management and low-level workers

The case of Olivares v. Canac Kitchens (another in the long list of wrongful dismissal accounts against Canac Kitchens) arose from the termination of a 24-year employee. The employee was an uneducated shipping supervisor with poor English, who oversaw a team of loaders and coordinators. His salary was approximately $93,000, including overtime pay and benefits. He spent his entire Canadian working life with the company, communicating almost exclusively in Spanish. In May 2008, Canac Kitchens ceased its manufacturing operations and, as a result, Olivares was left looking for work...

Article by Matt Lalande, Lalande & Company Lawyers / Employment Standards / Bardal Factors, Canac Kitchens, Di Tomaso v. Crown Metal Packaging Canada, employment law, employment standards act, hiring a lawyer, Keays v. Honda, mitigation, Olivares v. Canac Kitchens, payment in lieu of notice, termination, wrongful dismissal

By Matt Lalande, Lalande & Company Lawyers | 4 Minutes Read January 11, 2012

Employees that wish to withdraw resignations: what to do?

Employers should never accept resignations from employees that are upset. It simply casts a “wider net of possible financial exposure” if things turn nasty. In other words, judges or juries probably won’t sympathize with the issue of resignation acceptance if the employee is genuinely and legitimately upset (not because someone misplaced their red stapler).

Article by Matt Lalande, Lalande & Company Lawyers / Employee Relations, Employment Standards / employment law, Kieran v. Ingram Micro, mitigation, notice of resignation, notice period, offer to resign, quit or be fired, reasonable notice, resignation, termination, valid resignation, voluntary acceptance, withdraw resignation, wrongful dismissal, wrongful resignation

By Matt Lalande, Lalande & Company Lawyers | 7 Minutes Read December 12, 2011

The sale of a business and some implications for employers and employees

Last month I was consulted by a woman with respect to a new employment agreement that she wanted reviewed. The employment opportunity presented to her was by a company that had purchased the software company she was currently employed with for the past 19 years. Her salary remained the same, as did the total of her bonus, although the bonus structure was altered to reflect seemingly unattainable goals. While the new bonus structure did in fact reflect the purchasing company’s exact bonus structure with all of its existing employees, this arrangement was originally her main concern.

Article by Matt Lalande, Lalande & Company Lawyers / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Payroll / canadian employment law, common law, common law obligations, company takeovers, employment law, employment standards act, ESA, ESA obligations, Nokes vs. Doncaster, novation, sale of a business, seniority, Sorel vs. Tomenson Whitehead, successor employer, termination, terminations, transitional contract, wrongful dismissal, years of service

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