Can knowledge of a cause of cause be used as grounds for cause of dismissal?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Manchulenko v. Hunterline Trucking Ltd., 2002 BCSC 966 (CanLII):
In particular it is alleged the plaintiff abused the use of company computers by receiving and sending pornographic materials, jokes and other inappropriate material. Knowledge of causes that would ground dismissal not known at the time of termination but later discovered are admissible and permissible as grounds for termination for cause [Ma v. Columbia Trust Co. (1985), 1985 CanLII 686 (BC SC), 9 C.C.E.L. 300 (B.C.S.C.)].
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