Court Awards Moral Damages Because Termination Letter Was Misleading
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Russell v. The Brick LP, 2021 ONSC 4822 held that an employer should pay moral damages to an employee because of the manner of dismissal. This case is noteworthy because of the rather strict position the court takes on how an employer should carry out a dismissal. Particularly, the judge was not happy with the employer’s termination letter to the employee because it did not set out that if the employee rejected the offer contained in the termination letter that the employer would still pay the necessary statutory minimum entitlements in Ontario’s Employment