Ms. Brink was the Chief Revenue Officer for ElectraMeccanica Vehicles Corp., a Canadian designer and manufacturer of electric vehicles. Readers may be familiar with the three-wheeled single-seat vehicle called “SOLO”. In 2024, ElectraMeccanica was acquired by Xos, Inc. – a manufacturer of electric medium- and heavy-duty trucks based in Los Angeles, California. After the end…
In Parolin v. Cressey Construction Corporation, 2025 BCSC 741, Ms. Parolin was an 18-year employee of a Vancouver real estate development and construction company, Cressey. She joined the company in 2005, and by 2018, as Director of Marketing, she earned $93,600, with promises of further salary increases. Ms. Parolin had a flexible work schedule since…
After termination of the plaintiff’s employment, the employee sought to avoid payment of taxes on a wrongful dismissal settlement. In Canada, tax is always deductible on a “retiring allowance”, and severance paid as a settlement is a type of retiring allowance. EMV Automotive USA Inc. (“EMV”) had offered the plaintiff, among other terms: (1) a…
