Daily Archives: January 4, 2023

Wrongful Dismissal from Employment and Mitigation

Where an employee is wrongfully dismissed, they have an obligation to mitigate their losses by finding comparable employment. The Ontario Court of Appeal provided further insight into what this duty entails in the decision of Merida Lake v La Presse Inc (2022). In that case, a 52-year-old employee had worked for a French language newspaper…

Interference with Long Term Disability (LTD) Benefits

An employer has an obligation not to prevent an employee from claiming coverage to disability benefits. In Egan v Alcatel Canada Inc (2006), the employee was denied long term disability benefits as her employer had cancelled her insurance coverage prior to the expiration of the reasonable notice period. The trial judge had held that, given…