In Altman v. Steve’s Music Store Inc. the Court rejected the employer’s defence of frustration of contract and awarded the employee 22 months notice, moral damages and punitive damages due to the employer’s inappropriate conduct in terminating an employee suffering with a disability.
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Courts may award punitive damages when an employer’s behavior towards an employee was “high-handed, malicious and reprehensible”. The purpose of Read More...
Read about how the reduction and removal of aggravated and punitive damages demonstrates continued confusion amongst Canadian courts.
An employee is only able to recover damages for mental distress due to the breach of a contract if it can be shown that such damages were within the r Read More...
There is no general duty prohibiting employees from competing with a former employer after their employment ends.
Little more then four months after the Supreme Court of Canada heard the appeal of Honda Canada Inc. v. Keays, the court’s decision was released. Th Read More...
Court demonstrates that deliberate mistreatment of an employee by an employer in order to encourage the employee to resign will not be tolerated.
