Employment Contracts

In Tyalta v Connolly, the ALRB considered whether someone was dismissed or resigned and found neither had happened.

In Nickles v 628810 Alberta, Judge Farrington elected to use summary judgment to determine reasonable notice damages.

In Sub Terrain Excavating v Ross, 2025 ABESAB 1, a truck driver for a construction company was not considered to be a construction employee.

In Kirke v Spartan Controls, 2025 ABCA 40, a dismissed employee was not entitled to payments from shares that were bought back by his employer after dismissal.

In Hoefman v Lawrence Meier Trucking Ltd., 2025 ABCJ 13, the court implied employment standards vacation pay into an employment contract

In Building Works Ltd. v. Nagy, an employer was not entitled to deduct the cost of materials ordered in error from an employee’s final pay.

In Singh v Clark Builders, 2025 ABKB 3, the Alberta Court of King’s Bench upheld a termination clause based partly on surrounding circumstances. 

In Dufault v Ignace, 2024 ONCA 915, the Ontario Court of Appeal found a termination clause in an employment contract was unenforceable.

In Plotnikoff v Associated Engineering 2024 ABKB 706, the Court found a termination clause did not restrict severance and that the employee had not failed to mitigate.

In Hassen v Dunwald & Fleming Enterprises, a welder was considered to be an employee, and was entitled to wages, overtime and vacation pay.

In People Corporation v 2578649 Alberta Ltd., an Alberta Court refused non-comp and non-solicit injunctions, but granted a 12 month fiduciary non-solicit

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