fiduciary duty

“Keep your hands clean”: Ontario Superior Court rules that an unfairly terminated fiduciary may owe a lesser degree of post-employment fiduciary duties

January 21, 2019 Employer Advisor, McCarthy Tétrault LLP Employee Relations, Human Resources, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll

Recently, in the case of Palumbo v. Quercia 2018 ONSC 503, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled that the restrictions on soliciting clients of a corporation will not be as strict for an unfairly terminated fiduciary.

breach of fiduciary duty, employment law, fiduciary duty, soliciting customers, termination, wrongful dismissal, wrongful termination

Lack of facts doesn’t keep a good judge down

June 27, 2012 Earl Altman Employee Relations, Human Resources

In a recent decision from the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench, the judge considered the rights of an employer to claim compensation for an employee who had allegedly stolen a business idea. The facts of the case are not unique; indeed, they arise frequently in the give-and-take between employer and employee.

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