LAW 4110

Employment Law

Team Assignment II:

Termination Case Study

In

this

assignment,

your

team

will

analyze

the

case

below,

and

submit

one

briefing

memorandum

and

one

annotated

bibliography

to

support

your

analysis.

Your

analysis

must

be

based

on

your

own

thoughts,

as

supported

by

references

to

legislation,

literary

resources

(at

least

two

academic journal articles

)

and

case

law

(at

least

three cases

).

The

briefing

memorandum

and

the

annotated

bibliography

will

be

submitted

together

by

each

team

and

will

be

graded

as

one

assignment.

The

case

to

be

studied

is:

Carleton Village is a small retirement and long-term care home in Ottawa, Ontario. It has 75

employees and an annual payroll of $2 million. None of the employee are unionized.

Ryan is a registered nurse at Carleton Village. He works on the night shift. He is 59 years old

and has been working at Carleton Village

for 10 years.

Recently, Rhiannon started to work as a registered nurse at Carleton Village on the day shift.

Ryan spoke with her often at shift changes, and the two developed a romantic interest in each

other. They started dating, but things quickly went downhill. Ryan became jealous of

Rhiannon's male friends, and Rhiannon broke up with him. Ryan had difficulty accepting that

the relationship was over. He began to call Rhiannon constantly, trying to pressure her into

rekindling their relationship. He began to send her many text messages each day, often starting

as soon as he finished his night shifts. The text messages were rude and demeaning. Rhiannon

often left work crying after having received one of Ryan's texts, and she worried about receiving

discipline for leaving her shifts early.

Finally, Rhiannon had had enough. She told Carolyn, the Human Resources Manager for

Carleton Village, what was going on.

Carolyn is not sure what to do. She comes to you, a human resources consultant, for advice.

She would like to terminate Ryan due to his unprofessional behaviour, but she wants to avoid a

"messy fight" with Ryan. Carolyn needs you to brief her on options for termination, and any

associated financial risks.

Make

sure

that

your

team

fully

addresses

the

following

issues

in

your

briefing

memorandum

to

the

CEO:

1.

Under

the

Employment Standards Act, 2000

,

how

many

weeks

of

notice

of

termination

or

pay

in

lieu

of

notice,

if

any,

must

Carleton

Village

give

Ryan?