Enforceability of a termination clause in a written employment contract continues to be a vexing legal issue. An employment case in point is the Court of Appeal for Ontario decision in Amberber v. IBM Canada Ltd., 2018 ONCA 571, which clarified that subdivision of a...
A question of enforceability of termination clauses turns on the wording of the clause, the purpose and language of the Employment Standards Act, 2000, and the jurisprudence on interpreting employment agreements. With the release of Nemeth v. Hatch Ltd., 2018 ONCA 7, the Court of...
In general, courts interpret employment contracts differently from commercial contracts, mainly because of unequal bargaining power between employers and employees and the importance of employment in a person’s life. Some employment contracts include severability clauses, which are designed to reform an illegal...
While we often see employment contracts that contain termination provisions that purport to limit employees’ entitlements upon dismissal to the statutory minimums mandated by the Employment Standards Act, the language used to achieve that objective is often susceptible to legal interpretation. A case in point is...