“Ensure that you are clear on what the employee’s doing if their actions indicate they’re quitting, and if they say they’re resigning based on concerns with the workplace, have conversations and document it, and let the employee know that you’re willing to work with them to look into the concerns and resolve them.”
So says Shannon Sproule, an employment lawyer at Turnpenney Milne in Toronto, after the Ontario Labour Relations Board overturned an order to pay a worker termination pay after he demanded new employer-provided lodgings or else he would quit.
Adamanda Homes is a residential construction and maintenance company in Pointe au Baril, Ont., that builds, maintains, opens, and closes cottages. It hired the worker in July 2005 as a carpenter’s helper. He eventually achieved the role of foreman.
