Employment Law

Saskatoon Future Shop closes

March 28, 2015

Future Shop is closing 65 locations across Canada for a week, and then reopening them under the Best Buy name. Sixty-six Future Shop stores will be closed permanently.

The company says 500 full-time and 1,000 part-time jobs will be eliminated. It is unknown if employees at the Preston Crossing location will keep their jobs when the Best Buy opens.

Lawyer Lior Samfiru with Toronto employment law firm Samfiru Tumarkin LLP said he’s been asked to review the severance packages of a number of former Future Shop employees, and he’s concerned with how they’re being treated.

Read more from the article on Global News here.

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Lior Samfiru

National Co-Managing Partner

Lior Samfiru is a Founding Partner of Samfiru Tumarkin LLP and Practice Leader for the firm's Labour & Employment Law Group. His experience in countless successful cases and mediations on behalf of employees and employers, as well as his continued advocacy for the rights of workers, makes him one of the most skilled and sought-after labour and employment lawyers in Canada.

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