An Ontario tech executive who continued working for nine months without pay during a shareholder dispute has been awarded only two weeks’ termination pay, after a labour board found he …
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Constructive DismissalSubscriber Content
🔒Worker awarded $35K after employer’s unannounced apartment visit, repeated texts during medical leave
An Ontario home care company must pay $34,800 to a former executive assistant after its principal made an unannounced visit to the worker’s apartment, demanded a work cellphone, and sent …
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Sexual HarassmentSubscriber Content
🔒Flight attendant denied EI benefits after sexually inappropriate conversation with passenger
A flight attendant has been denied employment insurance benefits after losing his job for engaging in sexually inappropriate conversations with a passenger, with both the Social Security Tribunal’s General Division …
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Arbitration/Labour RelationsSubscriber Content
🔒Step-grandparent not covered under bereavement leave clause at mining firm
An arbitrator has ruled that a mining company was entitled to claw back three days of bereavement pay from a worker who took leave following the death of his wife’s …
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Sexual HarassmentSubscriber Content
🔒Former Red Lobster worker who filed 15 applications over same incident declared vexatious litigant
A former Red Lobster employee in Ontario has been declared a vexatious litigant and had his reprisal complaint dismissed after filing 15 applications with the Ontario Labour Relations Board, all …
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Arbitration/Labour RelationsSexual HarassmentSubscriber Content
🔒Roofing worker fired for sexual harassment in Uber during modified work duties
An arbitrator has upheld the termination of a sheet metal worker who masturbated in the back seat of an Uber vehicle while being transported to work as part of his …
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Subscriber ContentWrongful Dismissal
🔒Worker who hid new job for 4 months breached settlement, but didn’t void it: Ontario court
An Ontario court has ruled that a long-service employee who intentionally concealed his new job from his former employer for four months breached their settlement agreement but did not repudiate …
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Subscriber ContentWrongful Dismissal
🔒B.C. pharmacy’s bitter pill: $150K for dismissing 77-year-old worker after 45 years
A British Columbia pharmacy has been ordered to pay $150,000 in damages after wrongfully dismissing a 77-year-old front store manager who had worked at the business for 45 years. The …
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Occupational Health & SafetySubscriber Content
🔒Alberta board revokes penalties against property owner after OHS failed to prove work site existed
An Alberta property owner has successfully appealed $2,000 in administrative penalties after occupational health and safety officials could not establish his rural property was actually a work site, according to …
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Subscriber ContentWrongful Dismissal
🔒Olymel’s counterclaim against sales director accused of downloading confidential files struck
An Ontario court has struck a meat packing company’s counterclaim against a former sales director accused of downloading confidential files, finding the pleadings lacked sufficient material facts but allowing the …