Can a party substitute a reasonable notice period in an employment agreement?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Bowes v. Goss Power Products Ltd., 2012 ONCA 425 (CanLII):
However, the parties to employment agreements can, and often do, substitute a fixed period of notice in the agreement, thereby displacing the common law period of “reasonable notice”. Parties are entitled to do so provided that they do not violate the minimum statutory requirement relating to notice: see Machtinger v. HOJ Industries Ltd., 1992 CanLII 102 (SCC), [1992] 1 S.C.R. 986, at pp. 998-1002.
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