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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
(B) A company can "terminate without cause" to even the best and brightest. To avoid a "wrongful dismissal", a company simply has to tell the person that their services are no longer required.
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Except it is a lot more extensive than that. There are provincial standards for severance, but if the employee is considered to be treated unfairly at any point in the process, they can extract quite a bit in punitive damages from their employer. I.E. Not providing them severance pay.
The only way you can avoid paying someone severance is when you fire them with cause.
You're making it sound like in your example the employer fabricated a reason for the termination of employment. The courts don't look very positively on that.
When severing good employees without cause, companies frequently pay a fair bit over the level required by provincial standards so that it is a disincentive to try to take the employer to court.