Is an employee who is wrongfully terminated entitled to an equal compensation claim?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Bergeron v. Movati Athletic (Group) Inc., 2018 ONSC 885 (CanLII):
It is trite law that an employee who is wrongfully terminated is entitled to be placed in the same financial position she/he would have been in at the end of the reasonable notice period or if she/he had been given the appropriate notice of pending termination (Sylvester v. British Columbia, 1997 CanLII 353 (SCC), [1997] 2 S.C.R. 315 at 315, 146 D.L.R. (4th) 207).
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