If your employer decides to terminate your employment without serious cause, as an employee you are entitled to a reasonable notice of termination, in terms of months of salary and benefits.

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If learning the end of one's employment is never happy news, you should be aware that it is illegal to include a clause capping or limiting to a certain threshold the compensation to which an employee is entitled in the event of termination without cause. 

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Such a clause, even if present in your employment contract, has no effect and you can still sue to obtain a longer notice period. 

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The law is clear on that point: “[t]he employee may not renounce his right to obtain an indemnity for any injury he suffers where insufficient notice of termination is given or where the manner of resiliation is abusive”.

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The length of this notice period will depend on the circumstances of each case, and takes into account in particular the nature of the job, the length of time you have worked there, your age, the possibility of obtaining a similar position given your experience, training and skills, and whether or not you have left a previous stable and remunerative job in order to invest yourself in this new job which is now coming to an end.

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Do not hesitate to reach out to us : it is possible help you get what you're entitled to, in terms of severance pay and benefits.
 

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