What is the legal test for terminating a term of employment under a continuous employment agreement?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Johnston v. MacCallum, 1939 CanLII 155 (SK QB):
In Gregson v. Watson, supra, the term of employment was under the agreement a continuous employment, to be terminated only on two weeks’ notice. In the case at bar there was no agreement for continuous employment and no specified term of notice agreed upon.
In Warburton v. Heywood or Heyworth (1880) 6 Q.B.D. 1, 50 L.J.Q.B. 137, the appellant, a woman weaver, employed at a mill, was paid by the piece, and all work done was booked up at three o’clock on the Wednesday afternoon of each week, and paid for on the following Saturday, all work booked after three o’clock on the Wednesday afternoon being carried forward to the following week.
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