30-year employee fired after getting cancer

Court awards $55,000 in extra damages on top of 22 months’ notice to show its ‘repugnance’

An Ontario employer must pay nearly two years’ salary plus $55,000 in extra damages to a long-term employee it fired after she reduced her hours and took medical leave for cancer treatment, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled.

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