What is the test for establishing an employee's failure to mitigate?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Wong v Polynova Industries Inc., 2021 BCSC 603 (CanLII):
[44] The test for establishing an employee’s failure to mitigate was summarized in Evans v. Teamsters Local Union No. 31, 2008 SCC 20, [2008] 1 S.C.R. 661:
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