SMO415 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Employer, Severance Package, Workplace Violence

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Strategic Management and Organization
• Course: SMO415
• Professor: Ross Bradford

Document Summary

Unilateral change by the employer without agreement that leads to significant changes to an employee"s employment agreement. Example: the employer tells the employee that they have to transfer to a new location. The employee does not like this, so they end up quitting. A forced quit, where the employer does all that they can to make the conditions intolerable, so the employee will quit. Change has to be substantial and without advanced reasonable notice. Proper communication, so there are proper explanations for the changes. This will eliminate employees believing they are being targeted. Within the contract have a contract clause in place that talks about how the employer has sole discretion regarding employee"s duties etc. Just-cause = do not have to give reasonable or severance pay. This is wrongdoing on the part of the employee. Economic conditions are not wrongdoing by the employees.