Does qualified privilege apply to statements made by an employee to a supervisor?
Yukon, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ramirez v. Gale, 2017 YKSC 29 (CanLII):
There have been examples in the case law where qualified privilege applied to statements made by an employee to supervisors: Popat v. MacLennan, supra, at paras. 27 to 28.
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