Is an employee entitled to claim as damages as damages for the expenses of mitigation?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Paquette v TeraGo Networks Inc., 2015 ONSC 4189 (CanLII):

The employee is entitled to claim as damages the expenses of mitigation provided that the expenses were reasonably foreseeable as damages: Leduc v. Canadian Erectors Ltd., supra at para. 52.

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