A registered nurse who turned off a critically ill patient’s paralytic and lowered his sedation without a physician’s order has lost her wrongful dismissal grievance against University Health Network, with… …
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PREMIUM Supreme Court refuses Gate Gourmet appeal over out-of-province replacement workers
The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an airline catering company’s bid to challenge a labour board order that barred it from using workers in Alberta and Ontario to perform… …
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PREMIUM Ontario ordered to pay three guards on PTSD leave $12.5K each for posting their photos at jail entrances
Three Ontario correctional workers on leave for post-traumatic stress disorder have each been awarded $12,500 after the Grievance Settlement Board found the Ministry of the Solicitor General discriminated against them… …
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PREMIUM Holiday Inn housekeeper reinstated after being fired for taking cigars from guestroom fridge
A housekeeper fired from the Holiday Inn & Suites, Vancouver Downtown over three cigars found in a guestroom fridge has been reinstated by a labour arbitrator, who ruled the termination… …
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PREMIUM Alberta tribunal rejects Canadian Natural bid to dismiss vaccine mandate complaints
The Human Rights Tribunal of Alberta has dismissed an application by Canadian Natural Resources Limited to throw out seven human rights complaints over its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, finding the… …
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PREMIUM Response Biomedical loses bid to lift $646,000 garnishing order for dismissed CEO
A former chief executive dismissed by Response Biomedical can keep a prejudgment garnishing order worth $646,418.86 against the company, after the Supreme Court of British Columbia refused to set it… …
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PREMIUM Insurance firm that ignored employee’s stalker loses $116K wrongful dismissal fight
An insurance brokerage in British Columbia wrongfully dismissed a producer who had been stalked for years by a client’s representative, the Supreme Court of British Columbia has ruled, awarding her… …
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PREMIUM WCAT denies border officer’s mental disorder compensation claim following encounter with armed, dangerous individual
A border services representative in British Columbia has lost his appeal for workers’ compensation for a mental disorder, after the province’s Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal found that his encounter with… …
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PREMIUM Olympic Wholesale supervisor awarded 33 months after wrongful firing, including bump for bad-faith conduct
A night shift supervisor fired for alleged time theft has won 33 months’ pay in lieu of notice after the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found his employer, Olympic Wholesale,… …
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PREMIUM Manager’s stroke while working from home not work-related
A regional manager who suffered a severe stroke while working from home will not receive workers’ compensation benefits, after the New Brunswick Workers’ Compensation Appeals Tribunal upheld a decision that… …


