Can an employee who works in a joint venture agreement with his employer do not breach the terms of the agreement?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Medallion Corporation v. The Queen, 2018 TCC 157 (CanLII):
The decision of Semenoff v. Saskatoon Drug & Stationary, (1988), 1988 CanLII 5117 (SK QB), 49 DLR (4th) 102 established that an employee who entered into a joint venture agreement with his employer which involved doing many of the same actions the employee had carried out in his employment, was not detrimental to the otherwise valid joint venture agreement. The focus now was on sharing of gross profit.
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