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Court Upholds an Employee-Friendly Interpretation of Termination Provisions in Employment Contracts
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December 2016

Court Upholds an Employee-Friendly Interpretation of Termination Provisions in Employment Contracts

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As an employee, by law, you are entitled to reasonable notice of termination of your employment. Employers however, often attempt to limit your legal entitlements by explicitly defining your rights upon termination in the employment contract. In the recent case of Singh v Qualified Metal Fabricators Ltd. an Ontario Court adopted an employee-friendly interpretation of these termination provisions, resolving the potential ambiguities in favour of the employee. While employers are allowed to contractually limit employees’ common-law reasonable notice requirements, they are required to do so with complete precision. In this case, an employee was terminated after 4 years of employment…

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