Doug’s top 5 employment law stories of 2019
We have started the last month of 2019 and it is time for my annual top employment law stories of the year. 2019 has been a relatively good news year for Ontario employers.
reasonable notice period at common law
Shareholders’ agreement all that matters for shareholder rights in wrongful dismissal analysis
What happens to an employee’s rights under a shareholders’ agreement if the employee is wrongfully dismissed?
Ontario Superior Court takes “trust” approach to mitigation at summary judgment
Summary judgment has increasingly become a process used to litigate wrongful dismissal actions. It can be attractive as it allows the parties to avoid going through a more costly and time-consuming trial. However, the efficiency of this process raises other issues. Because parties can bring a summary judgment motion early on in the proceedings, a decision may be rendered prior to the expiry of the reasonable notice period at common law. This raises the question as to how to deal with the issue of mitigation.
