“A judge has ordered a manufacturing company in southwestern Ontario to pay 10 months severance to a longtime employee after it fired him for cause upon learning the 66-year-old labourer was facing sexual assault charges involving underage complainants. Criminal charges for so-called “off-duty conduct” are not sufficient for dismissal, said the judge. There must be a justifiable connection to the employer or the nature of employment,”
Source: Off-duty conduct increasingly under scrutiny: lawyers