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All wrongful dismissals are not the same. In 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that employers who show especially bad faith in the firing process must pay additional damages to the employees they humiliate. But soon, so-called Wallace damages were being awarded as a matter of course. So in June 2008, the Court clamped down. The normal “hurt feelings” caused by firing aren’t enough, the Court stated in the Honda case. Wallace damages should be handed out only when employers’ conduct is “deliberate and outrageous.”
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