{"id":226,"date":"2010-04-06T10:45:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T18:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=226"},"modified":"2010-04-06T10:56:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T18:56:47","slug":"dismissal-just-cause-for-defamatory-letter-to-shareholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Dismissal Just Cause for Defamatory Letter to Shareholders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.gov.bc.ca\/jdb-txt\/SC\/10\/04\/2010BCSC0444.htm\"><em>Chen v. Sable Fish Canada Inc.<\/em><\/a>, 2010 BCSC 444, deals with the matter of one unhappy employee that got himself fired for airing the company&#8217;s dirty laundry to no less than the shareholders. The case makes clear that a degree of criticism of management is acceptable but when that criticism goe beyond neutral with an intent to damage the employer&#8217;s reputation, cause, as it was in this case,  is established.<\/p>\n<p>Management countered with a defamation action. The employee&#8217;s statements were protected by a qualified privilege due to the employee&#8217;s comments concerning the management of the company&#8217;s affairs and the financial health of the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chen v. Sable Fish Canada Inc., 2010 BCSC 444, deals with the matter of one unhappy employee that got himself fired for airing the company&#8217;s dirty laundry to no less than the shareholders. The case makes clear that a degree of criticism of management is acceptable but when that criticism goe beyond neutral with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}