Can an employment contract be terminated within two days of its start?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Treminio v. Aveda Institute, 2017 BCPC 348 (CanLII):
In Brockenborough v. Restauronics Services Inc., [1985] O.J. No. 2832, the plaintiff was awarded six weeks’ notice after his employment contract was terminated within two days of its start. In Brockenborough, the court accepted that the plaintiff had been persuaded to leave an existing job for work with the defendant.
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