$450,000: Ontario employer must pay common law notice after repudiating termination clause

'If you have a contract and comply with it, you don't need a release': says lawyer discussing recent case

$450,000: Ontario employer must pay common law notice after repudiating termination clause

“If you demand that a [terminated employee] sign a release to get their ESA minimums, that's contracting out of the ESA, and if you demand that somebody sign a release in exchange for a contractual severance, that's repudiation of the contract.”

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