By Graeme McFarlane
A recent case from Ontario illustrates a shift in judicial thinking with respect to the creation and operation of the employment relationship. ...
By Graeme McFarlane
Employers must be careful when implementing reorganizations. This holds particularly true when it comes to transferring managers into new roles. If not...
By Robert Smithson
The weird world of employment law sometimes compels employees to go back to work for the very employer which fired them. Recently,...
By Robert Smithson
Most employers likely believe that an employee given working notice of termination and who refuses to keep working has forfeited any legal...
By Robert Smithson
Our common law of wrongful dismissal establishes most employees’ entitlement to notice of termination (or pay in lieu) based, primarily, on the...
Robert Smithson
Among the possible acts of workplace insubordination, criticizing your boss to his or her superior ranks high on the list of actions sure...
Robert Smithson
One of the stranger aspects of the law of wrongful dismissal is the extent to which the duty to mitigate may compel a...
Chilwin Cheng
Recently, someone asked me whether they could sue their employer after they were dismissed and the employer provided them with a good reference...
