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You can be terminated or dismissed from your job without any reason, if your employer provides the proper advanced warning or payment, known as severance. In this situation, the amount of severance you received must be fair and reasonable.
Sometimes, your employer can terminate you without any warning or severance but only if you have engaged in very serious misconduct. This is known as a dismissal for “just cause”. Your employer has a legal duty to demonstrate that your behaviour was so bad that no other alternative existed but to immediately dismiss you.
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