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BlackBerry Sued By Over 300 Former Employees (mobilesyrup.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: BlackBerry is facing a class-action lawsuit from more than 300 former employees across Canada, according to a news release from law firm Nelligan O'Brien Payne LLP. The Waterloo, Ontario-based tech company is accused of denying employees their termination entitlements by transferring them to a partner company and, once they had accepted employment there, handed them resignation letters. The former employees were then allegedly given their final date of work. "BlackBerry's actions amount to a termination of the employees' employment," the law firm said. "This entitles these employees to statutory, common law, and/or contractual entitlements on termination."

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  1. Re:Whatever happened to unions! and H1B laws? by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Funny

    h1b is a US thing. we are talking about canada, you hoser.

    Yes, but Canada has something similar where it is called "H-1B-eh?".

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  2. Re:Huh? by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Blackberry provided resignation letters for the employees to sign and dictated their last date of employment."

    Blackberry pointed guns at the employees' heads and told them that either their signatures or their brains would be on the letters.

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