The Ongoing Impact of a Revoked Resignation
A broken engagement had some unfortunate unforeseen consequences to a woman who was wrongfully dismissed, seven years later. The Facts Ms. Theberge-Lindsay was employed on a continuous basis in the dental office in Stoney Plain, Ontario, as a dental hygienist, from 1993 to 2012, before she was dismissed without cause. In or about 1999, the employer restructured and had her sign an employment agreement with a management services corporation. She received nothing but continued employment for that signature, and there was no change to her duties. In March 2005, she provided the employer a notice of resignation, effective July 5, 2005, because she had become engaged and intended to relocate to Guelph, where she had obtained replacement employment. In May, the engagement ended, and she advised her boss that she intended to stay. The only statement in either decision about the employer's response to that was that the Plaintiff testified that he "was pleased to hear it as he did