Shirley Filiatrault: Air Liquide

Air Liquide: This applies regardless of whether the employees are highly-paid former owners who expected to continue working after the business was sold or a modestly-paid machine operator, according to The Star. Paul Filiatrault founded Tri-County in 1967 following a career with Air Liquide in Quebec where he started working at age 18. Tri-County was distributor for Air Liquide in the Kitchener area, where the Filiatraults moved and Two recent decisions of the Ontario Superior Court send a clear message that employees who work into their 70s and even their 80s may be entitled to large damage awards if they are wrongfully dismissed. Paul and Shirley Filiatrault were both over 80 in 2009 when they sold Tri-County Welding Supplies Ltd. to Air Liquide Canada Inc., and were subsequently fired. The Filiatraults took Air Liquide to court and in May, recovered $1.16 million in damages as severance pay. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.