Can Last Chance Agreements and the Duty to Accommodate Live Side-by-side?Last Chance Agreement • May 5th, 2023
Contract Type FiledMay 5th, 2023A last chance agreement is an arrangement entered into between an employer, an employee with serious and persistent behavioral problems and, where applicable, the union, that gives the employee a final chance. Such an agreement imposes strict conditions to be met by the employee in order to maintain the employment relationship and may even provide that a breach of its terms will result in dismissal. There is more and more case law on this issue and last chance agreements are increasingly being used as a management tool in problematic situations.