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Pelsmakher Law advises employees and employers throughout Windsor and Essex County on wrongful dismissal, severance, mass terminations, and workplace disputes.
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Employment Law in Windsor
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Pelsmakher Law advises employees and employers in Windsor regarding:
- Wrongful dismissal
- Severance package reviews
- Constructive dismissal
- Employment contract review and drafting
- Executive employment agreements
- Human rights and workplace harassment
- Disability accommodation
- Temporary layoffs
- Just cause dismissals
- Independent contractor disputes
- Bonus and commission disputes
- Workplace investigations
- Employer workplace policies
- Employment Standards Act compliance
Windsor's automotive manufacturing economy
Windsor's economy remains closely tied to automotive assembly and parts manufacturing, an industry that has gone through repeated rounds of restructuring, temporary layoffs, and plant-level workforce reductions. Employees in this sector are more likely than most to encounter a mass termination, a temporary layoff, or questions about how a unionized workplace interacts with individual severance rights.
Mass terminations and plant restructuring
Where an employer terminates a large number of employees at a single Windsor location within a short period, Ontario's mass termination rules can add obligations beyond an ordinary individual termination, including additional notice and filing requirements. Even where an employer has followed the group process correctly, individual employees should still have their own severance offer reviewed, since mass termination compliance and adequate individual compensation are two different things.
Why choose Pelsmakher Law?
Clients throughout Windsor choose Pelsmakher Law because we provide focused employment law representation, responsive communication, strategic negotiation, and practical, transparent advice, with secure virtual consultations so you don't need to travel for experienced legal help. Learn more about the firm or read our employment law blog.
Also serving nearby areas: London, Kitchener, Waterloo, Brantford
Windsor FAQs
Common questions from Windsor clients.
Practical, Ontario-law guidance for employees and employers in Windsor.
It depends on whether this is a temporary layoff or a termination, and whether mass termination rules apply. Either way, your individual severance entitlement should be assessed separately from any group process.
Unionized employees generally pursue disputes through their collective agreement and union representation, but there are situations where independent advice is still valuable, particularly around non-work-related entitlements.
Yes. We advise employers on restructuring, group termination compliance, and workforce planning, in addition to representing employees.
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