What constitutes constructive dismissal when an employer unilaterally changes the terms of an employment contract?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ims Health Canada Inc. v Harbin, 2014 ONSC 4350 (CanLII):
Constructive dismissal occurs where an employer makes a unilateral and fundamental change to a term or condition of the employment contract: Faber v. Royal Trust Co., 1997 CanLII 387 (SCC), [1997] 1 S.C.R. 846 at paras. 24, 34 and 35.
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