Is a defamatory letter that received broad distribution bound to an employment contract bound to arbitration?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Burley v. Ontario Public Service Employees Union, 2004 CanLII 34769 (ON SC):
In Venneri v. Bascom, supra Lane J. considered an alleged defamatory letter that received broad distribution. He concluded that it was “inextricably bound up in the whole factual matrix of the employment relationship and must be caught in the arbitration requirement.”
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