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| Tevlin Gleadle Curtis | Piron v. Dominion Masonry

TevlinGleadle’s (Martin Sheard) recent win in the BC Court of Appeal in this interesting and important BC wrongful dismissal case has attracted significant media attention by legal commentators.

The case has important implications for employees, employers, and employment law practitioners in wrongful dismissal cases where issues arise about mitigation of damages, bonuses earned either during employment, or in an applicable notice period, as well as constructive dismissal.

See for example:

  1. Stewart McKelvey Employment Law Blog (issues of constructive dismissal, wrongful dismissal, mitigation considered)
  2. Bull Housser Newsletter/Alert (focusing on bonus practice for employers)
  3. Miller Thompson Labour and Employment Law Blog (constructive dismissal from failure to pay bonus)
  4. Employment Law Today (end to bonuses found to be constructive dismissal, thus wrongful dismissal)
  5. Keyser Mason Ball LLP (when terminating a bonus means terminating employment)
  6. Anna Wong’s Twitter Feed (Employer unilaterally changing employee’s bonus amounts to constructive dismissal)
  7. Nation News (focus on issues of constructive dismissal and wrongful dismissal)
  8. Watershed LLP (should I stay or should I go, constructive dismissal issues emphasized)
  9. BC Business (the high price of rude employer communications – found to be constructive dismissal, especially with pay cut via bonus)
  10. International Employment and Labour Law Blog (comment on trial decision, focus on constructive dismissal from unilateral alteration of substantial bonus)
  11. Human Rights Insider (TERMINATION:  Discontinuing Bonuses = Constructive Dismissal Even in Hard Times)
  12. HR Infodesk  (Eliminating bonus scheme constitutes constructive dismissal)
  13. CC Partners Law Firm (The Employers’ Edge Blog – Employer’s Unilateral Change to Bonus Structure can result in Wrongful Dismissal
  14. Harris and Co. (Benefit Reductions can result in Constructive Dismissal)
  15. Law Office of Jeff Jiehui Li (Wrongful dismissal, constructive dismissal and their remedies)
  16. McCarthy Tetreault (2013 Labour & Employment Law Client Conference)