What constitutes constructive dismissal of a regular employee?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Watson v. Seacastle Enterprises Inc., 2007 BCSC 365 (CanLII):
According to Farber v. Royal Trust Co., 1997 CanLII 387 (SCC), [1997] 1 S.C.R. 846 at 864, constructive dismissal of a regular employee occurs when: an employer unilaterally makes a fundamental or substantial change to an employee's contract of employment - a change that violates the contract's terms - the employer is committing a fundamental breach of the contract that results in its termination and entitles the employee to consider himself or herself constructively dismissed.
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