Contract Terms, Contract Termination, Canada

Leveraging Your Contracts to Address the Impact of Tariffs

Venable LLP on 4/22/2025

Companies are facing a unique trade market. President Trump has announced various tariffs, including additional tariffs on China, the on-again, off-again tariffs on Canada and Mexico, auto tariffs, steel and aluminum tariffs,...more

Ontario Superior Court of Justice Refuses to Apply Waksdale for Negotiated Employment Agreement

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/4/2021

In Rahman v Cannon Design Architecture Inc., the Ontario Superior Court of Justice upheld termination provisions that appeared to be in violation of the minimum standards prescribed by the Employment Standards Act, 2000...more

Employment Terms and Terminations: It’s Different in the States

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 9/11/2019

Employers sometimes include fixed terms of employment in their employment agreement. Sometimes a fixed term is meant to prompt the parties to renegotiate at the end of the term....more

Ontario Court of Appeal Confirms Law on Contract Provisions Which Will Breach the Employment Standards Act in the Future

Littler on 4/14/2017

Ontario’s highest court has confirmed that employment contract provisions that will breach the Employment Standards Act (‘ESA’) in the future are void and unenforceable. The Court has also confirmed that fixed-term employees...more

On Strict Terms: Wording of Termination Provision Not What the Employer Does Determines Enforceability

Bennett Jones LLP on 3/2/2017

Highlighting the importance of using precise language in termination provisions of employment contracts, the Ontario Court of Appeal in Wood v Fred Deeley Imports Ltd., 2017 ONCA 158 [Wood] recently held that a termination...more

Fixed-term Employment Agreements: Draft Them Carefully

Bennett Jones LLP on 4/29/2016

Employers often use fixed-term employment agreements to limit their future severance costs owed to employees. Although that may be an effective approach in theory, the Ontario Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Howard v....more