If You Promise the Stars…Deliver

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. ...

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Hollow Shuffles vs Constructive Dismissal

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...

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Y’all Come Back Now, Hear?

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,...

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Working Notice, Minus the Work

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...

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How Long Have You Worked Here?

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...

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Legal Ease – Why Is This Place So F#%Anded Up?

    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...

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Legal Ease – You’re Fired – But Don’t Leave!

  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...

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Employee Dismissals and LinkedIn Recommendations

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...

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