{"id":142907,"date":"2025-09-14T08:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142907\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T08:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:29:06","slug":"worker-claims-verbal-withdrawal-cancelled-written-resignation-during-company-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142907\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker claims verbal withdrawal cancelled written resignation during company sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The original company was purchased by a new employer in December 2022.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During this transition, the worker met with the new employer&#8217;s chief operating officer on 6 December 2022 as part of the company&#8217;s evaluation of existing staff. The timing of this meeting became crucial to the legal analysis.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The court explained that courts use both subjective and objective tests: &#8220;subjectively, did the employee intend to resign; and objectively, viewing all the circumstances, would a reasonable employer have understood that the employee had resigned?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The legal framework recognises that employees may withdraw resignations under certain circumstances, but only &#8220;until such time as the employer accepts it or, where there is no acceptance, until the employer relies on it to its detriment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Timing challenges in withdrawal attempts<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The timing of the alleged withdrawal became decisive. The worker testified that during her meeting with the new employer&#8217;s chief operating officer, she communicated her intention to stay:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The original company was purchased by a new employer in December 2022. During this transition, the worker met&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[45,49,48,76631,76632,124,76630],"class_list":{"0":"post-142907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-canada-employment-case-resignation","12":"tag-company-acquisition-canada-work","13":"tag-jobs","14":"tag-resignation-withdrawal-work-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}