Employment Law Show: Ontario – S10 E141

Episode Summary

What should a severance package include? Should employers provide notice before termination? Employment Lawyer Alex Lucifero, a managing partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, answers those questions and more on the Employment Law Show. 

LISTEN BELOW to Ontario’s premiere radio show about employment law and workplace rights featuring the province’s leading employment lawyers. You can hear the show live on Mondays to Thursdays at 640 Toronto and 980 CFPL in London at 6:30 p.m. ET, as the hosts take calls from listeners and provide vital answers to employees and employers. 

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Show Notes

• The employee let go from a job not offered adequate severance: It is important for employees upon termination to contact an employment lawyer as soon as possible to determine if the package that they have been offered is accurate. Severance must not only take into account salary. but all elements of compensation, including benefits and commission, etc.
• Business sold and questions about severance: Employees do not automatically receive severance if a business is sold as they are not automatically terminated. The purchasing company can decide whether or not to keep the previous employees or terminate employment. Employees that are not hired by the new purchaser are owed severance pay.
• Facebook and Twitter job impact statements: Any type of notice of termination must be clear and unequivocal. Employees that have been given formal notice that their employment is ending, have been terminated and will be owed severance. A general notice of a job being impacted is considered meaningless in terms of a legal perspective.
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