Blindsided employee gets 12 months’ notice — plus $50,000

Company’s failure to give sales manager a warning before dismissal while trying to avoid paying notice entitlement was bad-faith conduct

An Ontario employer must pay a fired sales manager a year’s worth of reasonable notice and $50,000 in punitive damages for falsely claiming cause for dismissal and acting unfairly in the way it terminated his employment, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled.

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