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Record W2949668603

DAMAGES FOR IMPROVIDENT EMPLOYER BEHAVIOUR: TWO JUDICIAL APPROACHES

2004· article· en· W2949668603 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Kelly VanBuskirk

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Bar Review · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal principles and applications
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSupreme courtNoticeDamagesLawDismissalDutyPolitical scienceCommon lawPunitive damagesDiscretionLabour lawBad faithJudicial discretionJudicial opinionJudicial review
DOInot available

Abstract

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The work undertaken in the following focuses on modern English and Canadian judicial approaches to the compensatory model imposed in common law employment disputes by the 1909 decision of the House of Lords in Addis v. Gramophone Co. Ltd., [1909] A.C. 488 (H.L.). The dissertation is concerned, primarily, with the legal impact of the Addis case, as well as both the legal and public policy considerations which favour a departure from the same. Both the House of Lords and the Supreme Court of Canada have, in the past six years, addressed the restrictions imposed by the Addis case on contemporary employment law damages. Although each of these courts recognized a need to depart from Addis, distinct approaches to the issue have resulted. The House of Lords has chosen a course by which the limit of damages prescribed by Addis (being compensation in the amount of “reasonable notice” of dismissal) may be overcome by a related claim for breach of the dismissing employer’s duty of “trust and confidence”. In Canada, however, the Supreme Court has devised a principle which affords judicial discretion to award additional “notice” compensation to an employee who has been dismissed in “bad faith”. The Supreme Court of Canada approach has been questioned, on the basis that it defies established contract law principles and, further, is not wholly responsive to the practical realities of modern employment as a “relational contract”. After a comprehensive review of these two judicial responses to Addis, it is submitted that neither approach is adequate or, for that matter, as legally complete as contemporary concepts of employment allow or demand. If the common law is to have relevance in employment law, it must evolve at a pace and direction consistent with the evolution of employment itself. At this juncture, the common law has been nudged (by both the House of Lords and the Supreme Court of Canada) in an appropriate general direction, but further reforms, which would equate typical employment relationships with insurance agreements and other “peace of mind” contracts, are desirable.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.985
Threshold uncertainty score0.893

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.134
GPT teacher head0.368
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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