If you have been terminated by no fault of your own, it is likely that the law requires your employer to provide you with ‘reasonable notice’ of your termination. That is, your employer must either allow you to continue working at your regular rate of pay for a period of time (referred to as the ‘notice period’) **or** your employer must provide you with a lump sum payment for all wages, bonuses, benefits and other forms of compensation that you would have been paid in the ‘notice period’ had you been given the opportunity to continue working.
The length of the ‘notice period’ is different for each individual employee, depending on the employee’s age, the number of years of service the employee worked with the employer, the nature of the employee’s job, and whether the employee was induced to leave a secure job to work for the employer. In general, however, courts typically order employers to provide employees with about 1 month of notice for every year the employee has worked with the employer. Therefore, if you have been working at your employer for ten years prior to your termination, it is reasonable to estimate that a court would order somewhere in the neighborhood of ten months of notice. If you have been provided any less, call **or** email us at inquiry@shelllawyers.ca to arrange a consultation with Shell Lawyers.
Consultations for wrongful dismissal cases start at $250.
