'The court is always going to look at the conduct in the context of the employment relationship'
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“Post-termination conduct can never be cause [for dismissal] retroactively, but if it's something that they've done during the employment relationship that the employer later discovers post-termination, then it can potentially amount to after-acquired cause.”