Press and data reference

The severance calculators work out the minimum notice or pay in lieu that employment-standards law sets, and show common-law notice as a reasonable-notice range for Ontario and a plain-language explanation for British Columbia and Alberta. They cover Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta. Quebec is not covered.

The directory lists employment-law firms that act for employees, using facts the firms publish on their own websites. It does not rate, rank or endorse any firm, and no firm pays to be listed. See how we list firms.

The open data pages chart official statistics on unemployment after job loss and on Employment Insurance claims. They are published statistics, not legal advice and not a prediction for any one person.

Fair Notice's datasets, charts and tables are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You may copy, share and adapt them, including commercially, if you credit Fair Notice and link to the dataset page.

The original publishers keep their own licences and terms, which are not changed by ours. Each dataset page lists its sources and the licence that applies to them:

• Statistics Canada Open Licence (Statistics Canada)

A source publisher does not endorse Fair Notice or its use of the data; each page repeats that notice.

Data pages. Each figure is pulled from the publisher's own data service, then read a second way (a second request or endpoint, or a recalculation from its components). A figure is shown only when the two agree. A figure that fails a check is not shown, and the site cannot be built if a figure is older than its source's freshness window. Every dataset page gives its as-of date, its check date and its sources.

Calculators. For British Columbia and Alberta, each statute rule is re-derived from the official statute text in a separate pass and compared with the calculator's own table, and the site cannot be built if a rule's evidence is missing, out of date, or quotes the statute inexactly. For Ontario, each statutory figure is tied to an exact quotation from the Act or its regulation in a committed evidence file, and a statute-watch check compares the Act and O. Reg. 288/01 with the version on record. The editorial policy describes the process and how common-law notice is framed.

Directory. Listings use facts from each firm's own website and are checked by a second, independent AI pass, as described below.