Does an Employee's Silence Always Amount to a Condonation of a Temporary Layoff? Ontario Court Says "No". In a recent decision, the Ontario Court of Appeal found that an employee's failure to object or speak up after his employer placed him on an unpaid temporary...
An Employee's Duty to Mitigate in Wrongful Dismissal Cases In Ontario employment law, the general rule is that an employee has a legal obligation to look for (and accept) comparable employment. This is called the "duty to mitigate" income losses. How does this rule...
What Every Employee Should Know About Constructive Dismissal As an employment lawyer in Toronto, I am quite often asked to assist employees who believe they suffered a constructive dismissal. While this legal concept is not as well known, it is slowly gaining...