A Toronto brewery worker who refused to take part in firing a co-worker was let go from his job two weeks after being promoted to supervisor, a decision the Ontario… …
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Toronto hotel worker ordered to pay $1,500 in costs after losing sex discrimination fight
A Toronto hotel maintenance worker has been ordered to pay $1,500 in costs after the Divisional Court of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed her application for judicial review …
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PREMIUM Footletic ordered to pay $20,000 after failing to accommodate, firing worker with knee injury
A pedorthic technician who hurt his knee moving heavy grinding equipment at Footletic Inc. has been awarded $20,000 after the custom orthotics company failed to accommodate his injury and later… …
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PREMIUM Unifor breached duty of fair representation for BC Transit worker in vaccine fight: Board
A Victoria transit worker whose religious exemption grievance was withdrawn after his own union’s membership voted against sending it to arbitration has won a finding that Unifor breached its duty… …
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B.C. government worker denied request to keep teleworking from Edmonton to care for daughter
A BC Public Service Agency employee seeking to continue working remotely from Edmonton to help care for his daughter has been denied an interim order that would have let him …
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PREMIUM Department of National Defence worker’s demotion claim survives despite no drop in pay
A grievance analyst with the Department of National Defence who lost her supervisory duties without any reduction in pay or classification has an arguable case that the change amounted to… …
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Reprisal claim over collection agency threat for wage overpayment falls outside human rights tribunal’s reach
A worker who said The Learning Garden Private School threatened to send her to a collection agency after she won an unpaid wages claim has had her human rights complaint …
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Board rejects UBC professor’s bid to revisit failed union complaint
A University of British Columbia professor’s request to have his failed complaint against his faculty union reconsidered has been denied by the British Columbia Labour Relations Board, which found no …
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A veteran diagnosed with major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder has had her combined disability assessment increased to 85 per cent, retroactive to Aug. 1, 2024, the Veterans Rev… …
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PREMIUM Temporary layoff clause survives worker’s court challenge in Ontario
A six-month layoff without pay did not amount to a firing, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled, upholding a lower court decision that a temporary layoff clause in… …


