LAW 529 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ontario Human Rights Code, Unemployment Benefits, Employment Contract

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Law and Business
• Course: LAW 529
• Professor: Peter Wilson

Document Summary

Areas of common law liability: misrepresentation by job candidates. Same if suggests inherent lack of honesty, especially if the job requires high degree of trust: eg: person said they have degree, but actually only completed most course work but didn"t graduate -> dismissal may be justified. Cornell v. rogers cablesystems inc. -> court said dismissal was justified where applicant told prospective employer that still working with former er but actually was dismissed. Court said that ee"s innuendo was not sufficiently misleading to support his dismissal without notice. Attestation clause -> stating that the information provided is true and complete and can get disqualified from employment if not true: wrongful hiring: negligent misrepresentation. If er makes a representation that is relied on by a prospective ee and that ee suffers damages coz of it, the er may have to compensate the ee. Doesn"t matter that the er sincreley believed that the misleading/inaccurate statements were true.