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Employers are allowed to give a bad reference in Canada. The law is clear: If an employer wants to communicate negative comments about a past or present employee, it is free to do so. There are no employment standards rules or regulations about job references in Canada. Rather, the legal framework for reference letters is …

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In Ontario, what is defamation? What are the elements of defamation? What are the defences to defamation? Find out by reading this article! In this article, ‘plaintiff’ refers to the person suing for defamation and ‘defendant’ refers to the person accused of defamation.  What is Defamation? Defamation is a statement that injures a third party’s …

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