Compensation package

Singer strikes back: Court of Appeal awards damages for lost bonus over 17 month notice period

May 1, 2018 Devan Marr Employee Relations, Human Resources, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll

There are several important takeaways from this decision for both employers and employees. The first is that the Court will carefully review bonus documentation for the parties’ intention to remove any entitlement after termination.

Compensation package, employment law, lost bonus, notice period, reasonable notice period, termination

Must you include bonuses when calculating lost wages?

August 18, 2017 De Bousquet PC Barristers and Solicitors Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Wages and Compensation

In the case, Bain v. UBS, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice tackled the issue of whether bonuses are too be included when calculating the income that an individual would have earned during a period of reasonable notice.

Bain v. UBS, Bonus entitlement on termination, bonuses, compensation, Compensation package, employment contract, employment law, lost wages, reasonable notice, termination, wrongful dismissal

Communicating bonus preconditions to employees

December 21, 2016 Rubin Thomlinson LLP Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Source Deductions and Reporting, Wages and Compensation

In the last few months, there has been an influx of commentary on the enforceability of contractual provisions purporting to limit an employee’s bonus entitlements upon termination. Following the Ontario Court of Appeal’s seminal decisions in Paquette v. TeraGo Networks Inc. and Lin v. Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, much of this commentary has focused on the language needed to oust an employee’s implied right to their complete compensation package during the reasonable notice period. This focus on semantics has overshadowed one other consideration that remains instrumental to the enforceability of bonus provisions—the need to sufficiently communicate to employees the preconditions of bonus eligibility.

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BC government enables smaller employers to give employees pension plans

October 4, 2016 Employer Advisor, McCarthy Tétrault LLP Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Union Relations, Wages and Compensation

Pension plans can be a very helpful retention mechanism for good employees (and, it must be noted, bad ones too), and many larger employers offer them to their employees as part of their overall compensation package. However, the cost and complexity of pension plans have also meant that they may not be considered by most smaller employers. Recent legislative enactments have attempted to address this.

Bill 9, Compensation package, employment law, pension plans, pooled registered pension plans, Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act, PRPP

National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2011 now available

January 31, 2012 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor Employee Relations, HR Analytics, HRMS, Human Resources, Payroll, Recruiting and Hiring, Wages and Compensation

The National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2011 is the current departmental standard and was approved on November 21, 2011. The NOC was jointly released for free by Statistics Canada and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) today and includes…

Compensation package, different skill levels to reflect changes in job requirements, employment law, HRSDC, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, Job classifications, job description, job titles, National Occupational Classification, NOC, Occupations, Skill levels, Skill types, Statistics Canada, Work performed