{"id":42,"date":"2018-02-08T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T21:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2019-06-20T12:00:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T16:00:41","slug":"divisional-court-finds-that-employer-demonstrated-bad-faith-and-acted-as-puppeteer-in-treatment-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/08\/divisional-court-finds-that-employer-demonstrated-bad-faith-and-acted-as-puppeteer-in-treatment-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Divisional Court finds that employer demonstrated bad faith and acted as &#8220;puppeteer&#8221; in treatment and termination of fixed-term independent contractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent case of <i>Radikov v. Premier Project Consultants Ltd et al. <\/i>is a cautionary tale of the importance of good faith in contractual relations after the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed Premier&#8217;s appeal, finding Premier had acted as a &quot;puppeteer&quot; by keeping Mr. Radikov at its &quot;beck and call&quot; for roughly three months before attempting to terminate his fixed-term contract just two days before completion and refusing to pay Mr. Radikov&#8217;s outstanding invoices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent case of Radikov v. Premier Project Consultants Ltd et al. is a cautionary tale of the importance of good faith in contractual relations after the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed Premier&#8217;s appeal, finding Premier had acted as a &quot;puppeteer&quot; by keeping Mr. Radikov at its &quot;beck and call&quot; for roughly three months before attempting to terminate his fixed-term contract just two days before completion and refusing to pay Mr. Radikov&#8217;s outstanding invoices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debousquet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}