Termination for Off-Duty Misconduct Part 2: Social Media
In last week’s blog, we discussed the general legal framework for dismissing employees for cause for off-duty misconduct and examined recent examples of these kinds of dismissals in the context of criminal and quasi-criminal conduct. This week, we will focus on examples of off-duty social media misconduct that meets the high legal standard for termination […]
Just Cause Is a High Threshold – But Certain Conduct Will Clearly Amount to Cause for Dismissal
A recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal, Dunsmuir v Royal Group Inc. [Dunsmuir], provides an example of the level of employee misconduct
No Need to Get Frustrated: New Developments on the Doctrine of Frustration
In two 2018 decisions, Canadian courts considered the boundaries of the doctrine of frustration.