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My husband is a school bus driver (8 years) and the company has been "sold" - no details on if stocks sold or assets sold, but assuming bus company is closing down and a new bus company (existing bus company) may offer him employment. A new position may mean he has to drive to a much further to the new bus depot to pickup the bus and some other terms of his current employment will likely change as well but not in a good way. With the sale, would he entitled to severance? (I've done the calculator $12,833 to $14,666). What does he need to be aware of in signing documents with the new company? Could he be signing away his severance rights or anything else? A short note given to everyone with no date or signature or addressed to them personally has been received from his current company. Is that considered "notice" based on the day he received it? It seems more like an announcement than official notice. Thank you and love the radio and TV program.
You have raised a lot of questions and I highly recommend that your husband contact our office to schedule a consult call with one of our employment lawyers as we would need to review all the relevant documents to fully assess his matter. In short, if they are offering him a comparable position he may be obligated to take it or else it will be a failure to "mitigate" entitling him only to his minimum statutory entitlements. However, he has no obligation to accept a non-comparable position and in that case he may be entitled to common law severance entitlements which greatly exceed the statutory minimums. He should not sign any documents without having a lawyer review them first for him.