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ONCA upholds 10 months notice period for short service director

In  Pavlov v. The New Zealand and Australian Lamb Company Limited, 2022 ONCA 655, the Court upheld a 10 month notice period for a 47 year old Director of Marketing Communications with just under 3 years service who was making $132,000/year plus bonuses.

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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.

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Retraining costs allowed even though plaintiff did not get a new job within the notice period

In Cordeau-Chatelain v Total E&P Canada Ltd (2021 ABQB 794) Justice Price has a situation where an employee who was awarded 18 months notice had reasonably retrained herself in a new career at a cost of about $18,000.

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