Blog & Media Appearances

A senior tech executive fired after just 7 months has been awarded 14 months’ notice after a judge ruled she was induced to leave her former job at a major competitor.

Employees are often right to distrust HR, which is inherently an arm of and paid by the employer. HR may present themselves as neutral parties and may act as mediator or moderator between employees, but they are the business itself at the end of the day.

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A Small Claims Court judge found the termination provision in an employee’s contract to be void for limiting benefits continuation, which violated Ontario’s Employment Standards Act.

According to Justice Charles Hackland’s decision, the 51-year-old Software Executive left a secure position with a prior employer to take the Executive Sales role at the defendant employer, only to be fired 10 months later.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld an award of $1.8 million in damages for a former financial executive, despite rejecting his claim for constructive dismissal.