A recent case out of Nova Scotia serves as a reminder for employers and HR about employment law considerations when it comes to employees on probation.

Due to a crucial omission in an employment contract, an employer was ordered to pay $10,000 of a remaining signing bonus to an employee terminated for “gross incompetence” during her probationary period.

“He prepared his own employment contract – mistake number one,” says Ronald Pink of Pink Larkin in Halifax.

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