{"id":585,"date":"2016-05-11T15:54:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T23:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=585"},"modified":"2016-05-12T11:31:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T19:31:29","slug":"18-year-starbucks-manager-17-months-termination-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"18 year Starbuck&#8217;s manager 17 months termination notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.gov.bc.ca\/jdb-txt\/sc\/16\/08\/2016BCSC0830.htm\">2016 BCSC 830 Luchuk v. Starbucks Coffee Canada Inc.<\/a><\/em> deals with the termination of an 18 year Starbucks manager. Notice was fixed at 17 months.<\/p>\n<p>The employer had offered 8 weeks notice. A life time supply of coffee would have been a better offer. I don&#8217;t understand why employers do this as it looks bad and costs a lot of money and time.<\/p>\n<p>The Courts said this on mitigation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n[39]         In summary, the burden on a defendant to prove that a plaintiff failed to mitigate is a high one. The defense has to prove not only that the employee did not take such steps as a reasonable person in the dismissed employee&#8217;s position would have taken in their own interests, but must also show that if the plaintiff had taken those steps, the employee likely would have found equivalent employment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not a difficult concept, summed up neatly here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 BCSC 830 Luchuk v. Starbucks Coffee Canada Inc. deals with the termination of an 18 year Starbucks manager. Notice was fixed at 17 months. The employer had offered 8 weeks notice. A life time supply of coffee would have been a better offer. I don&#8217;t understand why employers do this as it looks bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law","category-litigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}