Terminated Without Cause in Ontario? What Compensation Could You Receive?
Your employer doesn't need a reason to let you go in Ontario. What they do need is to pay you properly for it, and "properly" is a much bigger number than most people are told at the termination meeting. If you've recently been terminated without cause and you're staring at a severance letter wondering whether the figure on it is actually fair, this is the part almost nobody explains clearly enough. About me I'm an employment lawyer at RZCD Law Firm LLP, practising in Toronto, Mississauga, and Brampton. I represent employees exclusively, never employers, in wrongful dismissal and severance matters, and my practice serves clients in English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil and Gujarati. The question I hear most after a no-cause termination isn't "Was this legal?" It usually is. It's "Is this number legal?" and that's a very different question. Two separate entitlements, not one Termination without cause in Ontario draws from two sou...