Employment Litigation, Wrongful Termination, Just Cause

Puerto Rico Supreme Court Reaffirms Importance of Just Cause for Employee Terminations

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 7/11/2025

The Puerto Rico Supreme Court recently issued a decision reaffirming the importance of just cause for employment terminations in Puerto Rico. Méndez Ruiz v. Techno Plastics Industries, Inc., No. 2025 TSPR 68 (June 26, 2025)....more

British Columbia Appeal Court Upholds Finding That Employee’s Surreptitious Recording of Conversations with Colleagues Justified...

Littler on 12/18/2023

In Shalagin v. Mercer Celgar Limited Partnership, 2023 BCCA 373, the British Columbia Court of Appeal (BCCA) upheld the lower court’s dismissal of an employee’s wrongful dismissal claim and its finding that his surreptitious...more

I’m Listening: BC Appeal Court Confirms that Secretly Recording Colleagues Constitutes Just Cause

Stikeman Elliott LLP on 12/11/2023

In Shalagin v. Mercer Celgar Limited Partnership, 2023 BCCA 373 (“Shalagin”), the British Columbia Court of Appeal affirmed that surreptitiously recording fellow employees may constitute just cause....more

British Columbia Court Finds Employer Had Just Cause to Dismiss Full-time Employee Who Worked on Side Business During Working...

Littler on 10/4/2023

In Dove v Destiny Media Technologies Inc., 2023 BCSC 1032 , the Supreme Court of British Columbia found that an employer had just cause for the dismissal of a full-time employee who worked on a side business during working...more

Surreptitious Recording of Conversations with Colleagues May Justify Termination of Employment for Cause in British Columbia,...

Littler on 3/22/2022

In Shalagin v. Mercer Celgar Limited Partnership, 2022 BCSC 112 (Mercer), the Supreme Court of British Columbia dismissed an employee’s wrongful dismissal claim and held that his surreptitious recording of conversations with...more

Employment Litigation › Wrongful Termination › Just Cause

Puerto Rico Supreme Court Reaffirms Importance of Just Cause for Employee Terminations

British Columbia Appeal Court Upholds Finding That Employee’s Surreptitious Recording of Conversations with Colleagues Justified...

I’m Listening: BC Appeal Court Confirms that Secretly Recording Colleagues Constitutes Just Cause

British Columbia Court Finds Employer Had Just Cause to Dismiss Full-time Employee Who Worked on Side Business During Working...

Surreptitious Recording of Conversations with Colleagues May Justify Termination of Employment for Cause in British Columbia,...

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