Employment Hour 640 Toronto – S7 E31

Summary

Toronto Employment Lawyer Jon Pinkus, associate at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, reveals your workplace rights in Toronto, the surrounding GTA, Hamilton, London and across Ontario.

Jon shatters myths and misconceptions about severance pay, terminations, workplace harassment, overtime pay, wrongful dismissal, constructive dismissal, duty to accommodate, and more.

What We Covered

Reasons why people accept bad severance packages, your rights when a company changes work location, the non-competition clause, what happens when a company closes and more on The Employment Hour.

0:50 – WEEK THAT WAS #1: Employee worked just under 2 years and was let go during restructure. He was made to sign an updated employment contract with a non-competition clause as well, and was not provided with compensation for this.

5:09 – WEEK THAT WAS #2: An employee in a marketing position for a major corporation was fired for “infidelity” after his employer found out he had been interviewing for alternative employment.

11:05 – SEVERANCE PAY CALCULATOR: Find out what your owed at severancepaycalculator.com

13:01 – CALLER: When a company changes work location what is the obligation of the employer in terms of communicating location changes? And what are the employee’s rights when accepting the change of location?

20:22 – REASONS WHY PEOPLE ACCEPT BAD SEVERANCE PACKAGES: #1 They simply don’t realize they are entitled to more.

21:08 – REASONS WHY PEOPLE ACCEPT BAD SEVERANCE PACKAGES: #2 They relied on advice from the Ministry of Labour.

23:31 – REASONS WHY PEOPLE ACCEPT BAD SEVERANCE PACKAGES: #3 They are worried about upsetting their employer.

26:48 – REASONS WHY PEOPLE ACCEPT BAD SEVERANCE PACKAGES: #4 The severance deadline was only 2 weeks.

28:01 – CALLER: The company I work for is being bought out and will be closing by the end of the month. They are only offering 2 days of severance pay for year of service, because we are federally regulated but I feel this is incorrect. I don’t know what to do.

34:08 – REASONS WHY PEOPLE ACCEPT BAD SEVERANCE PACKAGES: #5 The termination was for cause.

35:03 – REASONS WHY PEOPLE ACCEPT BAD SEVERANCE PACKAGES: #6 They can’t afford to pay legal fees.

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