How Much Severance Pay Are You Owed in Alberta?
How Much Severance Pay Are You Owed in Alberta? The amount of severance pay due is a regular issue when an employer is terminated in Alberta. However, it is perhaps ... more
How Does Severance Pay Affect Unemployment Benefits in Alberta?
How Does Severance Pay Affect Unemployment Benefits in Alberta? If you have been terminated in Alberta and are receiving (or may receive) severance pay, you have made the right decision ... more
Employers’ Obligations to Employees Extend Beyond Termination
EXPECTATION AND OBLIGATION OF EMPLOYERS AFTER TERMINATION A recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court has clarified, and in a way broadened, the expectation and obligation on employers when they ... more
Severance Package Reviews in Alberta
SEVERANCE PACKAGE REVIEWS IN ALBERTA If you’ve been terminated from your job in Alberta, your employer must abide by certain regulations or you can hold them to account. Specifically, you ... more
Alberta Termination & Severance Pay Rights & What You Need to Know
You may be surprised just how many employers in Alberta are either not fully aware of their obligations or willfully neglect them when terminating employees. That leads to many cases of wrongful ... more
Severance Packages During the COVID-19 Pandemic
It will take some time for the Plaintiffs claiming wrongful dismissal in the COVID-19 era to get to trial. So, we don’t know how the Courts in Alberta will assess the pandemic ... more
Dunbar v Northern Air: Case Comment
Dunbar v Northern Air, 2019 ABPC 179 is a recent case of the Alberta Provincial Court. I write this case comment because this was a trial I ran and was successful ... more