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

Posted by msmash on from the more-trouble dept.

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 at-will employment? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this is not about legal termination, this is about the company trying to pull a fast one in order to get out of paying severance pay BECAUSE they didnt have a legal reason to fire them but they didnt want to have to pay the amount that they are legally obligated to pay.Otherwise they would have justly terminated the employees with cause (and proper documentation)

    Why are these laws so important? because they promote job security and job security is good for the economy.

    Where do you work? would you be ok with your employer coming up to you and for no reason telling you to clean out your desk and get out? would you be ok with not getting any compensation at all, just told to GTFO?

    they are not special little snowflakes as you so put it, they are the ones making sure that the company that you work for cant just do this to you. so, maybe they are better than you because they chose to fight rather than roll over for their corporate overlords.

  2. Re:Whatever happened to at-will employment? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Termination being acceptable by either party for any legal reason... why do these special snowflakes think they are better than the rest of us?

    That shit stayed south of the border in the USA.

    And asserting your legal rights isn't being a special snowflake; crying on message boards about people asserting their legal rights is being a special snowflake.