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Is non-disclosure of a pre-existing injury grounds for dismissal?
Question: Why does a failure of a prospective employee to disclose a pre-existing injury – that may impede the employee's capacity to safely undertake their full range of duties – not enable an employer to terminate employment on the basis of the failure to make a full and proper disclosure of health and capacity to undertake known tasks?
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