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By Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation | 4 Minutes Read June 3, 2022

Preventing discrimination claims

Employment Lawyers often say that the two riskiest parts of the employment relationship are the hiring stage and the dismissal. Each of these raise their own specific sets of risks, but one commonality is that it is often easy for the candidate or employee to allege that they were discriminated against on the basis of a protected ground under Human Rights legislation.

Article by Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation / Employment Standards, Human Rights / discrimination, discrimination claims, Dismissal, employment law, evidence, hiring, performance reviews, prohibited grounds of discrimination, social media review, termination, wrongful dismissal Leave a Comment

By Vey Willetts LLP | 3 Minutes Read April 11, 2022

How exceptional – severance and long notice periods

It is a well-established principle of Ontario employment law that, barring exceptional circumstances, the maximum severance period an employee can expect to receive upon dismissal tops out at 24 months. Ontario’s Court of Appeal has reaffirmed this point time and again.

Article by Vey Willetts LLP / Employment Standards, Payroll / Dismissal, employment law, notice period, older long service employees, severance, termination Leave a Comment

By Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation | 5 Minutes Read April 1, 2022

Not everything is bad faith

In the world of employment, Wallace v. United Grain Growers Ltd. established a duty on the part of employers to act in good faith while in the course of dismissal. In the decade or so following that decision, virtually every wrongful dismissal included an allegation of bad faith.

Article by Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation / Business, Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Payroll / bad faith, Dismissal, duty of good faith, employment law, termination 1 Comment

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