Is there an award for employment prospects for an unemployed plaintiff?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from Robertson v. 6177655 Manitoba Inc. et al., 2020 MBQB 24 (CanLII):
In Ayub v. Sun, 2016 ONSC 6598, the court considered the personal injury claim of a plaintiff who was unemployed. No evidence was presented at trial about the plaintiff’s employment prospects, the type of work that he sought to obtain, or the skills that he had, so no award was made.
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