Judge OKs class action by former BlackBerry employees claiming severance pay
Posted May 28, 2019 1:42 pm.
TORONTO — An Ontario judge has cleared the way for a class action on behalf of about 300 former employees of BlackBerry Ltd. who are seeking severance or termination pay from the technology company.
The suit alleges, among other things, that BlackBerry had attempted to avoid paying the employees what they were owed by arranging to transfer the work they did to another employer, Ford Motor Company of Canada.
Most of the former employees were based in Waterloo, Ont., and Ottawa, with the rest elsewhere in Ontario and Nova Scotia.
The company had argued the case didn’t qualify as a class action.
However, Justice Michel Charbonneau says in a six-page ruling dated May 27 that the suit had satisfied the criteria outlined by the Class Proceedings Act.
BlackBerry declined to comment for this story.
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