In an order [PDF] filed on October 4, 2012, Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted summary judgment dismissing Linda Eagle's claims that she had been
damaged by her former employer's theft of her LinkedIn account.
Not exact matches
She was able to take the client's instructions and act for him
by meeting him with an interpreter outside of the office and he recovered # 15,500 in
damages from his
former employer.
The
employer seeks to protect itself from
damage imposed
by former employees engaging in competitive business activities.
An Ontario judge recently punished an
employer by ordering it to pay $ 100,000.00 in punitive
damages to its
former employee in addition to
damages for wrongful dismissal.
Claim to
damages by special carry limited partners of certain private equity funds against their
former employer - investment bank which resorted to offset against non-recourse debt owed
by claimants in unrelated transactions
An
employer who alleges just cause in bad faith as a tactic to avoid providing the employee with a proper severance package may be ordered
by the court to pay punitive
damages and / or moral
damages for bad faith dismissal in addition to wrongful dismissal
damages to the
former employee.
A British Columbia production supervisor has successfully sued his
former employer for wrongful dismissal after he was laid off indefinitely, but the BC Supreme Court reduced the worker's
damages by half because the worker refused the
employer's offer of recall.
Once this is established the evidentiary burden then shifts to the
employer to prove that the
former employee failed to mitigate his or her
damages by failing to take reasonable steps to find new employment.
Employment law (unreported): Defended an
employer in a Provincial Court action brought
by a
former employee seeking
damages for wrongful dismissal and elevated
damages due to the manner of termination.