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It’s natural to want a clean break and a fresh start after the end of an employment relationship. In most cases, employees can find new opportunities without looking back. However, as the decision in Brown v. General Electric Canada et al., 2024 MBKB 95 (“Brown”) reminds us, sometimes employees have … Read more »

This might be a cliche, but dismissals are like breakups: hard to pull off correctly; stressful; and rarely mutual. In this blog post, I want to focus on the last point. While dismissals are virtually never mutual, there are circumstances where both the employer and the employee mutually part ways a … Read more »

Although in many ways the height of the COVID-19 pandemic seems far in the past, employers and employees (and employment counsel) are still dealing with its impacts today as cases continue to make their way through the court process. In the recent decision of Croke v VuPoint System Ltd, the Ontario … Read more »

A company car is a great perk. If you’re lucky enough to get your own company car as part of your compensation package, then you might be able to relate to a dismissed employee who was so broken up about having to return his company car that he refused to do so until a court ordered him to. This is … Read more »

As employment lawyers, a regular topic of conversation with clients about implementing and using performance improvement plans (“PIP”) to address an employee’s lagging performance. Our typical guidance is that a PIP can be an excellent tool to identify and rectify an employee’s performance issues. W … Read more »