employment canada defamation british-columbia
If Party X tells Party Y something untrue about Party Z, if Party Y repeats it is this defamation (if it&#39;s obviously false)?
<p>I had a short term job that I was fired from. I was told that someone tripped and was injured on something I left laying around, which in fact I didn't do. As &quot;proof&quot; my manager showed me images of images and a message. I won't get into the details but the &quot;proof&quot; is just ridiculous, the floor in the photo doesn't even match where the event was claimed to have happened. It would seem that my coworkers heard I was fired for this.</p>
<p>Is this defamation? When I asked management why they believed I did this they just say &quot;someone told us&quot;.</p>
<p>Another way to phrase the question: does a employer have a responsibility to make some effort to determine if an accusation is true?</p>

<p>If A makes a false statement about B that harms B's reputation, that is normally defamation, unless some exception or privilege applies. If C repeats A's false statement, knowing it to be false, that is also defamation. If C repeats A's false statement possibly thinking it to be true, but under condition's where a reasonable person would know or suspect it to be false, that may be defamation, depending on the detailed facts and the view that the court takes.</p>
