What constitutes malicious high-handed conduct?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ott v. Canadian Standard Home Services, 2017 ONSC 7114 (CanLII):
The failure of an employer to meet its statutory obligations to a terminated employee amounts to malicious high-handed conduct for which an award of damages would be justified: see Nelson v. 977372 Ontario Inc. [2013] O.J. No. 3182.
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