Dylex Clothiers

Retail Wrongful Dismissal Who’s at fault for declining profit? With shareholder pressure to increase profits in the sportswear division, a Toronto retail company lured a key individual away from a competitor by offering a lucrative three-year guaranteed deal (void if fraud occurs) of $250,000 per year. To shorten the story, the profits never came, so this new management hire blamed and fired his number two -- who then sued the company for wrongful dismissal. The problem here was simple: whom should the president believe, the former employee or the new hire? Retained by Counsel for the owners, I started by... Read More...