Legal disclaimer

Not legal advice

Nothing on Fair Notice — the severance calculator, its results, or any directory listing — is legal advice. It is not legal advice: it is general educational information about employment law in Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta. Your situation may differ from the assumptions built into the calculator in ways that materially change what you're actually owed. Speak with a licensed employment lawyer before relying on any figure here, and especially before signing a release or accepting a severance offer.

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What the calculators cover

• Ontario: the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (Ontario) statutory minimum, plus a common-law reasonable-notice range.
• British Columbia: the Employment Standards Act (British Columbia): compensation for length of service and group termination pay (sections 63 to 65), with vacation pay on those amounts (section 58). Common-law notice is described in words, with no figure.
• Alberta: the Employment Standards Code (Alberta): termination pay (sections 55 to 57). Common-law notice is described in words, with no figure.

Not covered: other provinces and territories; federally regulated employers, whose employees fall under the Canada Labour Code; unionized employees; and the jobs and situations each province's statute takes out of its termination rules (the calculator asks about the common ones and names the rest in its result). Figures from one province's calculator do not apply to employment governed by another province's law.