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COVID Economic Downturn Not Frustration of Employment Contract

By Joel Fairbrother

March 7, 2022

Verigen v Ensemble Travel, 2021 BCSC 1934, is a new case where an employer had to pay severance despite decline...

Categories: COVID-19 | Severance | Wrongful Dismissal

Employer Not Allowed to Play Dumb on Resignation

By Joel Fairbrother

February 15, 2022

In First Choice Collision v Talbot, the Alberta employment standards appeal tribunal rejected an employer's argument that the employee had...

Categories: Employment Law | Severance | Wrongful Dismissal

Tools and Materials Instead of Cash for Severance?

By Joel Fairbrother

January 31, 2022

Hubbard, 2022 ABPC 22 is a new Alberta case where the court said it was ok that the employer provided...

Categories: Employment Law | Severance

Size of Employer A Factor In Interpreting Employment Contract?

By Joel Fairbrother

January 25, 2022

In Lawton v Syndicated Services, the court interpreted an employment contract in favor of an employer, it seems in part...

Categories: Employment Contracts | Incentive Pay | Severance

3 Months Severance and $10k Damages for 17 Year Old Dishwasher

By Joel Fairbrother

December 21, 2021

Bass v Boston Pizza, 2021 ABPC 315 is a new Alberta decision where the employer's just cause argument failed and...

Categories: Just Cause | Severance | Wrongful Dismissal

Fixed-Term Fiasco: Rice v Shell (ABCA)

By Sarah Coderre

December 16, 2021

In Rice v Shell, the Alberta Court of Appeal upheld a large severance award based on the employee being on...

Categories: Employment Contracts | Employment Law | Severance