Taman Singh Law

The email lands on a Tuesday afternoon, or the meeting gets booked with no subject line, and by the end of the day you're holding a termination letter you didn't see coming. Your first thought isn't about notice periods or severance formulas. It's whether you can still make rent. Here's what matters once the shock wears off: being laid off in Ottawa isn't automatically illegal. Ontario employers can end your job without cause. What they can't do is skip proper notice or compensation while doing it, and a lot of Ottawa employees accept the first number they're handed without ever checking whether it was fair. About Taman Singh I practise employment law at RZCD Law Firm LLP, representing employees across Ontario, including Ottawa, out of our Brampton and Mississauga offices. I represent employees only, never employers. Most of the Ottawa files I see follow a similar pattern. Someone was let go, told the offer was "standard", and didn't ques...

A meeting invite that wasn't yours to book. HR is already in the room. A termination letter slid across the table, an envelope with a number in it, and someone telling you it's "standard" and needs to be signed by the end of the day. Your first instinct is to just get through it. That instinct is exactly what employers are counting on. Termination without cause is legal in Ontario. Employers don't need a reason. What they do need is to pay you properly for it, and "standard" is rarely the word for what most people are actually owed. About Taman Singh I practice employment law at RZCD Law Firm LLP, with offices right in Brampton and in Mississauga, serving the Greater Toronto Area since 1993. I represent employees only, never employers. Most Brampton files that reach me follow the same pattern: someone was handed a package that looked reasonable on its face, signed quickly because the deadline felt real, and later found out the number was well below w...

That termination letter is still sitting on the table, maybe next to a banker's box someone handed you on the way out. You've read it twice, maybe three times, and there's a pen right there waiting. If you're in Brampton and staring down a severance offer right now, take a breath first. What you do in the next few days matters a lot more than most people realize — and most employees get it wrong simply because nobody walks them through it. Don't sign it just because it's in front of you The single biggest mistake employees make is signing the moment the package lands on the desk. HR often frames it as routine paperwork – "Just initial here and we'll process it" – and that pressure is rarely accidental. Once you sign a release, you're typically giving up your right to ask for more, even if you discover later that you were owed months of extra pay. Asking for time to review it isn't difficult, awkward, or unusual. It's exactly what a reas...