What is the burden of just cause for a plaintiff to terminate a defendant employee?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Scorpio Security Inc. v Jain, 2018 BCSC 978 (CanLII):
The plaintiff bears the burden of establishing that it had just cause for the defendant’s termination, given that no notice period was provided: Horvath v. SAAN Stores Ltd., 2003 BCSC 1845 at para. 2.
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