BenefitsCanada, a service aimed at HR professionals who generally work for employers mentioned us in their online news: http://www.benefitscanada.com/news/article.jsp?content=20090710_133814_8348. We couldn’t help but to notice their lead-in “HR legal staff be advised: a new online service is available for laid-off or fired Canadians to seek better serverance packages.”

Be advised?  Surely, employers wouldn’t be deliberately low-balling employees from what is a fair severance?  Beware the employee who knows what their rights are!

Actually, all fun aside - we’ve gotten lots of questions from small to medium size business owners who ask us whether they can use the site.  We say: ABSOLUTELY!  While the language we use is geared more to the employee, small to medium sized business owners can engage with our site to understand basic law around wrongful dismissal and use our calculator to get a sense of what might be a fair severance range for the employee that would minimize their risk of potential litigation.  Business owners can then make their own decision about how to conduct their severance negotiation strategy - and our Negotiation Manual can help them do it.