Vernon v. British Columbia (Liquor Distribution Branch) 2012 BCSC 133
The Court awarded our client 18 months severance, $35,000 in aggravated damages and $50,000 in punitive damages after she was wrongfully dismissed from her job of 30 years with the Liquor Board. Download Case PDF
Chan v. Dencan Restaurants, 2011 BCSC 1439
Our client is 63 years of age and was a managment level employee employed by Denny's for 15 years. The court found that our client had not resigned from his employment but had instead been wrongfully dismissed by Denny's and awarded him 18 months of severance. Download Case PDF
McIntosh v. Metro Aluminum Products and Augustynowicz 2011 BCHRT 346
Our client brought a successful human rights complaint against her former employer and boss for sexual harassment (unwanted text messages), and received approximately $29,500 in compensation, including $12,500 tax free in general damages for injury to dignity, feelings and self-respect.
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Wendy Woloshyn
Research Associate
604-266-7006 ext.222
wendy@kentemploymentlaw.comWendy is a Research Associate and practices in the areas of employment law and general civil litigation.
Wendy was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1998. Her legal experience is wide ranging, and includes corporate and securities law work at a large Vancouver firm and a crown corporation, respectively. While her primary role at Kent Employment Law is as the firm’s research lawyer, she also assists and advises the firm’s other lawyers on a variety of employment law matters.
Wendy is a former Board member of the Canadian Bar Association’s Women Lawyers Forum Mentoring Project; she also participated in this Project by mentoring junior women lawyers in Vancouver. Wendy is also a co-author or contributor on a number of the articles found on this website, including Continuing Legal Education Papers in 2006 and 2010, and a 2009 Lawyers Weekly article.
