What is a plaintiff's obligation to seek damages from his former employer for loss of employment?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from McIsaac v. Healthy Body Services Inc., 2009 BCSC 1716 (CanLII):
Even where self-employment initially offers reasonable prospects of success as a means of mitigating the loss of employment that does not end the matter. Once a plaintiff ought reasonably to understand that his business will not succeed, his obligation to make reasonable efforts to find other employment arises again if he intends to seek damages from his former employer for future loss: Wenarchuk v. Comstock Canada, [1997] S.K. No. 608 (QB) at para. 31.
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