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Employment Cases - Wrongful Dismissal - Remedy - Aggravated Damages

. Humphrey v. Mene Inc.

In Humphrey v. Mene Inc. (Ont CA, 2022) the Court of Appeal considered cross-appeals on a wrongful dismissal case, here on the issue of aggravated damages:
[61] An award of aggravated damages can be made in wrongful dismissal cases where an employer engages in conduct that is “unfair or is in bad faith by being, for example, untruthful, misleading or unduly insensitive”: Wallace v. United Grain Growers Ltd., 1997 CanLII 332 (SCC), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 701, at para. 98; Honda, at para. 57. Typically, as here, the assertion is that there was bad faith in the manner of dismissal. However, the “normal distress and hurt feelings resulting from dismissal are not compensable”: Honda, at para. 56. Assessing aggravated damages is “an imprecise, fact-specific exercise”, entitled to deference on appeal: Colistro v. Tbaytel, 2019 ONCA 197, 145 O.R. (3d) 538, at para. 60, leave to appeal refused, [2019] S.C.C.A. No. 173; Doyle v. Zochem Inc., 2017 ONCA 130, 2017 C.L.L.C. 210-030, at para. 14; and Strudwick, at para. 33.

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