Editorial policy & methodology

How the calculator works

The Ontario severance calculator computes two figures from the details you enter: the Ontario Employment Standards Act (ESA) statutory minimum — a floor set by legislation — and a common-law “reasonable notice” range. Courts apply no fixed formula to reasonable notice: they weigh the factors identified in Bardal v. Globe & Mail (age, character of employment, length of service, and availability of similar work) case by case. The calculator's common-law range rests on its own simplifying assumptions informed by those factors, so it is a range, not a prediction — it does not tell you what you would actually receive in a settlement or at trial. Every result shows the specific assumptions behind it, including how a “with cause” termination or a claim of constructive dismissal changes the range. The Ontario calculator applies Ontario employment law only.

For British Columbia and Alberta, the statutory figures are computed from the official consolidation of the Employment Standards Act (British Columbia), current to September 22, 2026 and the Employment Standards Code (Alberta), current to November 26, 2025, together with each province's regulations, Interpretation Act and official employment-standards guidance. Each rule was re-derived from those sources in a separate pass that did not see the calculator's own tables, the two were compared, and the calculator is tested against worked examples. Common-law notice is described in words, with no figure, because no official source gives a formula for it and courts decide it case by case. Every result shows the date the rules were last checked and a link to the source.

Directory listings: sources

Every fact in a firm listing — name, contact details, practice areas, which cities it serves, and whether it acts for employees — is taken from that firm's own public website. Each listing shows the firm's own web pages its facts were taken from, and the date they were checked.

AI-use disclosure

Directory listings are researched by one AI agent and independently re-checked by a second AI agent, and are approved under a delegated AI process. No human reviews each listing before it is published. A listing can contain mistakes. If you see one, please email info@fairnotice.ca.

How a listing is checked

A first AI pass proposes a listing from the firm's website. A second AI pass re-reads the same pages and re-derives each fact without seeing the first pass's conclusions, and the two are compared automatically. A listing can be approved only when every fact matches, and a record of both passes is kept for each published listing. Summaries are drafted by AI and each sentence is checked against the firm's pages by the second pass. Listings older than 180 days are withheld from the directory. See how we list firms for the inclusion criteria.

Corrections policy

If you believe a listing is inaccurate, email info@fairnotice.ca. A correction is checked against the firm's own website before it's applied — we don't take a request's wording at face value. We aim to respond within 5 business days.