With Canada’s largest bank RBC countersuing its former CFO in defence of a very public wrongful dismissal accusation, experts are advising HR professionals to take a close look at their policies around employee personal relationships — if they even have them.
Nadine Ahn, who was slated to be RBC’s first ever woman CEO, filed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against her former employer after RBC announced in April it had fired Ahn and another executive, Ken Mason, for an “undisclosed close personal relationship which led to preferential treatment”.
Mason has also filed a wrongful dismissal claim. The pair are both denying any wrongdoing, claiming the accusations by RBC were without merit and a “discriminatory and unbalanced misstep” according to Mason’s statement of claim.
