As an employee, you owe a duty of good faith to your employer. You’re required to do a good job, not lie to or purposely harm your employer, and not compete with your employer during your employment. But does your…
When an employee feels they’ve been treated unjustly by their employer, they often think that punitive damages should be owed to them. In reality, punitive damages are rarely awarded in wrongful dismissal cases. The purpose of this article is to…
Being dismissed from employment is always upsetting, but sometimes the employer is dishonest or unduly insensitive in the course of the termination. Where the employee experiences mental distress as a result of this kind of bad faith termination, courts may…