TERMINATING OLDER, LONG-SERVICE EMPLOYEES – EMPLOYERS ARE NOW BEING PUNISHED BY THE COURTS FOR "FORCED RETIREMENT" TERMINATIONS
There is an emerging trend in Ontario employment law – Courts are giving increasingly more reasonable notice, or pay in lieu, to advanced age, longer-service employees. If an employment contract does not contain an enforceable termination provision limiting the terminated employee’s notice to the statutory minimums set out by the Employment Standards Act, 2000, the […]