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(\u00ab&nbsp;Rainy Day&nbsp;\u00bb), la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de portefeuille de Herschel Segal, l\u2019un des fondateurs de DAVIDsTEA Inc. (\u00ab&nbsp;<strong>DAVIDsTEA<\/strong>&nbsp;\u00bb). Salvaggio all\u00e9guait que Rainy Day avait r\u00e9pudi\u00e9 son contrat de travail, le for\u00e7ant ainsi \u00e0 d\u00e9missionner. Il r\u00e9clamait le pr\u00e9avis de douze mois auquel il pr\u00e9tendait avoir droit en vertu de son contrat de travail en cas de cong\u00e9diement sans motif s\u00e9rieux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salvaggio \u00e9tait employ\u00e9 par Rainy Day depuis 2014, il agissait en tant que bras droit et principal conseiller de Segal dans plusieurs soci\u00e9t\u00e9s dans lesquelles Rainy Day comptait des investissements actifs, notamment DAVIDsTEA qui \u00e9tait son plus important investissement. \u00c0 la suite d\u2019une course aux procurations r\u00e9ussie impliquant DAVIDsTEA en juin 2018, Segal demandait \u00e0 Salvaggio d\u2019assumer un r\u00f4le de conseiller principal aupr\u00e8s de DAVIDsTEA, en plus de ses responsabilit\u00e9s existantes chez Rainy Day. Salvaggio a donc emm\u00e9nag\u00e9 dans un bureau de DAVIDsTEA, assist\u00e9 \u00e0 des r\u00e9unions avec la direction de DAVIDsTEA et des fournisseurs potentiels, et entam\u00e9 des n\u00e9gociations avec Segal, Rainy Day, et DAVIDsTEA quant \u00e0 un accord de consultation avec cette derni\u00e8re. L\u2019\u00e9bauche de cet accord n\u2019a jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 finalis\u00e9e. Salvaggio all\u00e9guait que l\u2019\u00e9bauche d\u2019accord de consultation qui lui avait \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e \u00e9tait en fait un cong\u00e9diement d\u00e9guis\u00e9, et ce, en raison des modifications apport\u00e9es aux \u00e9l\u00e9ments essentiels de son contrat de travail, notamment la d\u00e9cision unilat\u00e9rale de le nommer consultant de DAVIDsTEA et le retrait de certaines protections d\u00e9j\u00e0 pr\u00e9vues \u00e0 son contrat de travail qui s\u2019appliquaient en cas de cong\u00e9diement sans motif s\u00e9rieux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9tabli le cadre d\u2019analyse en mati\u00e8re de cong\u00e9diement d\u00e9guis\u00e9, la Cour estime que l\u2019offre d\u2019un nouveau poste \u00e0 Salvaggio aupr\u00e8s de DAVIDsTEA ne repr\u00e9sentait pas un manquement \u00e0 son contrat de travail ni un changement d\u2019un \u00e9l\u00e9ment essentiel dudit contrat. En effet, la Cour retient que les termes du contrat de Salvaggio ainsi que l\u2019application du contrat par les parties au cours de l\u2019emploi de Salvaggio ne permettent pas d\u2019\u00e9tablir un manquement ou une modification substantielle du contrat de travail. La Cour ajoute que, m\u00eame si cela avait \u00e9t\u00e9 le cas, Salvaggio avait accept\u00e9 ce changement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bien que la Cour rejette le recours en dommages pour cong\u00e9diement d\u00e9guis\u00e9, celle-ci se prononce concernant le <em>quantum<\/em> qui aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 dans le cas contraire. Dans cette analyse, la Cour souligne l\u2019importance de r\u00e9diger correctement les clauses de r\u00e9siliation ou de fin d\u2019emploi dans les contrats de travail afin de garantir l\u2019application du devoir de l\u2019employ\u00e9 de mitiger ses dommages suite \u00e0 la fin de son emploi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dans le cadre de ces proc\u00e9dures, Rainy Day \u00e9tait repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par une \u00e9quipe compos\u00e9e de Gary Rosen, Claudia Desjardins-B\u00e9lisle et Guillaume Conraud-Ar\u00e8s (droit de l&#8217;emploi).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","class_list":["post-7426","deals-cases","type-deals-cases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>La Cour sup\u00e9rieure du Qu\u00e9bec rejette un recours pour cong\u00e9diement d\u00e9guis\u00e9 d\u00e9pos\u00e9 par un ancien cadre de Rainy Day Investments Ltd. | Miller 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