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The Value Of Written Employment Contracts

Oct 17, 2010

Many employers rely on oral agreements or brief offers of employment. Recent cases from the B.C. Supreme Court highlight the importance of properly phrased employment contacts. The costs are typically minimal and the benefits can be substantial.

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Keayes V. Honda Canada

Oct 17, 2010

Employers must be very careful when dealing with ill or disabled employees. In Keays v. Honda Canada the trial court concluded that the employer dismissed and failed to accommodate an employee suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). After some 10 years... read more

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The obligation of good faith and fair dealing is incapable of precise definition. However, at a minimum, I believe that in the course of dismissal employers ought to be candid, reasonable, honest and forthright with their employees and should refrain from engaging in conduct that is unfair or is in bad faith by being, for example, untruthful, misleading or unduly insensitive. (Wallace v. United Grain Growers Ltd. [1997] 3 S.C.R. 701 (Supreme Court of Canada))