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By Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation | 3 Minutes Read July 8, 2022

What is “consideration”? Employers beware when implementing new agreements

Consider this: you provide a new agreement to an existing employee. The agreement contains a termination clause limiting the employee’s entitlements upon termination to the minimum under the statute. The employee signs the contract. Several years later, after dismissing the employee and providing them with their minimum statutory entitlements, you receive a letter from the employee’s lawyer seeking 24 months of pay in lieu of notice.

Article by Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation / Business, Employment Standards, Payroll / consideration, Dismissal, employment agreement, employment contract, employment law, termination, written contract Leave a Comment

By Occasional Contributors | 3 Minutes Read July 9, 2019

Assignment of a contract of purchase and sale: Get it in writing

In the recent case of Guraya v Kaila, 2019 BCSC 101 (CanLII), the Plaintiff’s sought to enforce a verbal assignment of a contract of purchase and sale in the face of vendors refusing to complete with the assignee purchasers.

Article by Occasional Contributors / Business, Finance and Accounting / contract, contract for purchase and sale, contract of purchase and sale, contractual obligations, Law and Equity ACt, written contract

By Rubin Thomlinson LLP | 3 Minutes Read July 6, 2016

Contracts and employment agreements

All employment relationships in Ontario are deemed to be contractual, whether or not a written contract is in place between the parties. When there is no written contract, the common law (judge-made law) imports a number of obligations into the contract that will bind the employer and the employee.

Article by Rubin Thomlinson LLP / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Payroll / commission plans, common law, conflicts of interest, copyright of works, duty to act fairly, employee benefit plans, employment agreement, employment law, employment relationships, incentive compensation plans, intellectual property rights, judge-made law, non-competition, non-solicitation, pension plans, reasonable notice, restrictive covenants, right to discipline, right to terminate, safe work environment, termination, written contract

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