At common law, an employer may summarily dismiss an employee for misconduct without affording the employee any opportunity to respond to the allegations, and the validity of the dismissal depends solely on whether the facts at trial establish misconduct justifying summary dismissal. An employer's implied duty of good faith does not prevent the employer from relying on genuine grounds of misconduct to dismiss an employee whom the employer wished to dismiss for other reasons.
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