Can an employer unilaterally change the terms of an employee's employment?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hanni v. Western Road Rail Systems (1991) Inc., 2002 BCSC 402 (CanLII):
In Farber v. Royal Trust Co. (1996) 1997 CanLII 387 (SCC), [1997] 1 S.C.R. 846, Gonthier J. stated: Thus, it has been established in a number of Canadian common law decisions that where an employer unilaterally makes a fundamental or substantial change to an employee's contract of employment ― a change that violates the contract's terms ― the employer is committing a fundamental breach of the contract that results in its termination and entitles the employee to consider himself or herself constructively dismissed. (at p. 864)
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