Fellow blogger, Michael Fitzgibbon of Borden Ladner, has set out a nice summary of contemporary law considering how courts assess how much notice is ‘reasonable notice’ to terminate an employment contract under the common law. As we discuss in my employment law courses, the courts have an implied a duty on the parties to an employment contract to provide ‘reasonable notice’ of termination when the contract itself does not include an expressed (and lawful) notice of termination clause. Michael’s blog discussion of notice law is in two parts.
Here is Part 1, which deals with the law in a general way, and here is Part 2, which considers in more detail the role of ‘inducement’ in the assessment of notice.