Selecting the Jurisdiction criteria

To complete this search section, select one of more jurisdictions.

The selection of one or more jurisdictions helps to narrow the search results to a specific locale. You must choose at least one jurisdiction and can choose as many jurisdictions as are available. After the creation of your initial report, you can return to the site to edit your report by selecting different jurisdictions. Keep in mind that as you add jurisdictions, your search results are expanded - a valid search must consist of 100 or fewer results. Result accuracy is more important to an applicable report than trying to maximize the number of results - you are trying to identify the cases that best match your situation.

Use the Select All to quickly include all possible jurisdictions and the Reset button to clear the currently selected items.

Selecting Job Occupation criteria

To complete this search section, choose between 1 and 3 job categories OR select Do not consider Occupation Categories.

Selecting Do not consider Occupation Categories will exclude all job category criteria from your search. Also, you will not be able to select from the category list.

The categories listed below break down job positions into summary job categories. To complete a search, you must include at least one job category and cannot include more than three job categories. If you choose fewer than three categories at this time to create your report, you can return and edit you report by adding additional categories up three - but you will not be able to change the categories previously selected.

Use the following job descriptions as a guideline to selecting the proper categories for your report. If your position straddles more than one category, you can select up to three to capture multiple job functions. Keep in mind that selecting multiple job categories will expand the number of results in your report - which must be kept to fewer than 100 in order to create a valid search.

• Upper Management - President, Vice President, Chief Executive Officer
• Middle Management - Division Manager, Regional Manager, Manager of Human Resources, Branch Manager
• Lower Management - Store Manager, Office Manager, Assistant Manager, Buyer
• Salesperson - Sales Agent, Real Estate Broker, Sales Representative
• Sales Manager - Regional Sales Manager, Marketing Manager, General Sales Manager, Product Manager
• Professional - Lawyer, Chartered Accountant, Engineer, Teacher
• Labourer - Factory Worker, Truck Driver, Cleaner, Teacher
• Clerical - Secretary, Clerk, Coordinator, Administrator Assistant
• Technical - Systems Analyst, Auto Mechanic, Laboratory Technician
• Supervisor - Supervisor of Accounting, Mining Supervisor, Foreperson
• Social Services - Patient Care Coordinator, Social Worker, Nurse

You can drag this dialog out of the way and keep it open while you complete your search criteria, or you can close it by clicking on the 'X' in the top right hand corner.

Entering the Age, Years of Service, and Date Ranges

To complete this search section, complete the Employee Age, Services Years, and decide whether to include case results where the age was not known or where there were additional circumstances that impacted upon the decision. Finally, decide whether to include cases from all years or from a specific year forward.

The Wrongful Dismissal Database Online uses a range search for the age and years of service search parameters to identify matching cases. To simplify completion of the from, the system uses the age and years of service values that you enter to create a default age and years of service search range. You can modify this search range to expand or narrow your search results. Keep in mind that as you broaden the range, your search results are expanded - a valid search must consist of 100 or fewer results. Result accuracy is more important to an applicable report than trying to maximize the number of results - you are trying to identify the cases that best match your situation.

Two checkboxes are provided for applicable cases where the details of the case may skew the results. The first option, Include cases without age reference, allows you to include cases where the employee's age was not referenced in the decision of the case, and therefore has been included in the collection with a 0 value. The second option, Include cases with special circumstances, allows you to include those cases where the decision was made due to particular circumstances involved in the case. With this option selected, a brief description of these special circumstances is included with the case reference.

Finally, you can narrow your cases to those where the decision was handed down between a specific year and today. By default, all years are included in the search results. To enable this function for your search, enter the year in 4 digit format in the appropriate box provided.

You can drag this dialog out of the way and keep it open while you complete your search criteria, or you can close it by clicking on the 'X' in the top right hand corner.