The Nova Scotia Labour Board has overturned a compliance order requiring a school board to return a teacher to her original classroom, ruling that reassigning her to a different room… …
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PREMIUM Bell worker with fibromyalgia wins disability case despite concerns over her video game playing
An Ontario arbitrator has ruled that Bell Canada wrongfully denied short-term disability benefits to an employee with fibromyalgia, rejecting the company’s argument that her video gaming activities proved she could… …
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PREMIUM Worker’s bid for $50,000 from union over Red Lobster girlfriend harassment case dismissed
The Ontario Labour Relations Board dismissed a worker’s request for reconsideration after he sought $50,000 in interim damages from his union for allegedly failing to act on a sexual harassment… …
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PREMIUM Long-term waste management driver fired for refusing to watch safety camera footage
An arbitrator has upheld the termination of a 26-year waste management employee who repeatedly refused to watch inward-facing camera footage of himself during safety coaching sessions, ruling the company had… …
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PREMIUM Paralyzed worker’s psychological injury claim denied despite PTSD diagnosis
A worker’s claim for compensation for a psychological injury was denied by Alberta’s Appeals Commission despite having a confirmed PTSD diagnosis, after the panel found insufficient objective evidence to support… …
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PREMIUM B.C. refinery worker, fired for lying about price of boots, has grievance dismissed
By Bob Mackin | Prince George Citizen An operator at Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure’s Prince George, B.C., light oil refinery got the boot for lying about the price of a pair. In a… …
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Constructive DismissalSubscriber Content
PREMIUM Temporary layoff during COVID was constructive dismissal, court rules in awarding 16 months’ notice
An Ontario Superior Court has awarded a long-term employee 16 months’ pay in lieu of notice after ruling his employer constructively dismissed him by imposing a temporary layoff without contractual… …
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PREMIUM Arbitrator orders Wescast to pay $11.5 million to laid-off workers
An arbitrator has ordered Wescast Industries Inc. to pay more than $11.5 million in termination and enhanced severance pay to 251 workers who were laid off from the company’s casting… …
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PREMIUM Court sets aside executive’s self-negotiated employment contract in corporate dispute
An Ontario Superior Court judge has set aside an employment contract that a company executive negotiated with himself during a bitter corporate dispute, ruling the agreement represented “blatant” self-dealing that… …
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PREMIUM SaskTel ordered to disclose customer data in workplace defamation case over Instagram posts
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has ordered SaskTel to release customer information to help identify anonymous defendants in a defamation lawsuit involving alleged workplace sexual harassment claims, overturning a lower… …