Just cause standard breaches statutory requirement, wipes out termination provision

'Ensuring that the contract is valid and fully enforceable is a particularly challenging endeavour'

Just cause standard breaches statutory requirement, wipes out termination provision

One wrong word can scuttle an entire termination provision – it’s something the Ontario Court of Appeal determined in 2020 and has been subsequently reinforced, including in a recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruling that awarded the balance of a fixed-term contract to a worker who was fired one year into his three-year employment agreement.

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