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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

Cross-Border Catch-Up: Performance-Based Terminations of Employment in South Korea

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/4/2024

Are performance-based terminations of employment possible in South Korea? The answer may lie in a recent Supreme Court of Korea case in which the employer obtained a favorable decision regarding the legitimacy of dismissing...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

British Columbia: Employer that Engaged in “Hardball Tactics” to Manufacture Just Cause for Termination Must Pay over $200K in...

Littler on 5/2/2023

In Chu v China Southern Airlines Company Limited, 2023 BCSC 21, the court held that an employer that attempted to manufacture just cause for the termination of a vulnerable employee breached its duty of good faith and fair...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

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

Cross-Border Catch-Up: Performance-Based Terminations of Employment in South Korea

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...

British Columbia: Employer that Engaged in “Hardball Tactics” to Manufacture Just Cause for Termination Must Pay over $200K in...

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

Employer Challenges Arbitrator Award Which Held Positive Drug Test for Cocaine Insufficient to Prove Just Cause

Ontario, Canada: Superior Court Determines Enforceability of Termination Clause

Seven Questions That Employers Should Ask Themselves before Discharging an Employee

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