Employment Contract Silent About Group Terminations 

Forbes v Glenmore Printing Ltd., 2023 BCSC 25 (CanLII) In this case, the plaintiff was laid off due to Covid, which, the parties agreed, amounted to constructive dismissal.  The question before the Court was entitlement to damages. The employment contract provided (in...

Wrong Way to Terminate and Litigate Lands Airline in the Soup

Chu v China Southern Airlines Company Limited, 2023 BCSC 21 (CanLII) The plaintiff, Mr. Chu, worked for CSA, controlled by the Chinese government, between 2008 and 2019, when he was terminated for cause, including unspecified allegations of incompetence and “time...

BCCA: CERB BENEFITS NOT DEDUCTIBLE FROM WRONGFUL DISMISSAL DAMAGES

Yates v. Langley Motor Sport Centre Ltd., 2022 BCCA 398 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/jt787> The plaintiff-employee appealed the trial judge’s decision to deduct CERB payments from her damages award for wrongful dismissal (and to decline to award punitive...

BC Human Rights Tribunal: Injury to dignity award $150K

RR v. Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society (No. 6), 2022 BCHRT 116 RR was an Afro-Indigenous woman, a single mother of five children, one of whom passed away at an early age, and three with have complex needs.  She was low income and in insecure...