What are the principles of good faith and good faith in the context of a wrongful dismissal?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Galea v. Wal-Mart Canada Corp., 2017 ONSC 245 (CanLII):
The court in Keays v. Honda reinforced these principles as values to live by. The court held that compensation flows from conduct of an employer in the course of a dismissal that is “unfair or is in bad faith by being, for example, untruthful, or unduly insensitive”.
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