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just cause

noun

B2CEFR level
38/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

A legitimate, well-substantiated reason for discipline that meets contractual or arbitral fairness standards.

The arbitrator found no just cause because the company never investigated before it fired him.

Similar: good cause

Topic: Employment law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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