Ontario Jim’s Dismissal

Ontario Jim’s Employment Law Case

Jim was in his late 50s and a successful auto executive in Ontario. Jim was recruited to come to Alberta and work for a competitor in the auto industry. He and his wife sold their house in Ontario, moved to Alberta and bought another house, and incurred significant expenses for new furniture, moving, realtor fees, etc. Jim’s expectation based on his new employer’s statements was that he would work at the new company until he retired.

Five months after he arrived in Calgary, Jim was let go “without cause”, but was told by his employer that his performance was terrible and that they had expected more of him. The employer paid him two weeks severance and offered him two weeks more if he would sign a Release. In the meantime, Jim had over $15,000 of moving expenses that had not been paid despite the company’s promise.

Resolute Law Group intervened and in a period of less than two months, negotiated four months severance pay and full payment of his moving expenses, all paid in a system which Jim’s tax advisors told him would result in the payment of the least amount of tax possible on a legal basis.