Unwritten Practices, Selective Discipline, and the Cost of Bad Faith

In Wilsher v. Olympic Wholesale, Justice Woodley of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice awarded an employee who was dismissed for cause 33 months’ pay in lieu of notice, extending a 19-month notice period by 14 months due to the employer’s bad faith conduct. The employee, a 55-year-old Night Shift Supervisor with 17 years of…