The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has ordered a pizzeria and its manager to jointly pay a former employee $9,000 in general damages after the manager called the Black worker… …
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PREMIUM Viterra loses bid to overturn contempt finding, $400,000 fine for requiring Vancouver port staff to exceed working hours
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld a contempt finding and a $400,000 fine against grain handler Viterra for requiring employees at its Vancouver port terminals to work beyond the… …
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PREMIUM Court orders fired Fairwater executive to produce tax, phone records in wrongful dismissal fight
A former president and chief investment officer suing Fairwater Capital for wrongful dismissal must produce his 2019 income tax return, hand over unredacted cellphone records and sit for further questioning,… …
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PREMIUM Lambton County harassment investigation fell short, Ontario labour board finds
A municipal prosecutor who was dismissed weeks after filing a workplace harassment complaint could not prove her firing was a reprisal, but the Ontario Labour Relations Board found the employer’s… …
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PREMIUM Court upholds Bison Transport firing of driver over failed drug tests
A long-haul truck driver who failed a second random drug test lost his wrongful dismissal claim against Bison Transport, after the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found the company had… …
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PREMIUM Surveillance video showing personal relationship between injured worker, doctor ruled admissible
Surveillance footage that appeared to show a personal relationship between an injured worker and one of her treating doctors will be allowed as evidence in her compensation appeal, even though… …
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PREMIUM B.C. court dismisses Investors Group consultant’s wrongful dismissal claim, counterclaim
A British Columbia judge has dismissed a wrongful dismissal claim brought by a long-serving Investors Group investment consultant, finding the company had just cause to end his 27-year career based… …
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PREMIUM BC Hydro loses court fight after it steered worker away from reporting mental health injury
British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority has failed to overturn a finding that it discouraged a worker from reporting a mental-disorder injury to the province’s workers’ compensation board. The Supreme… …
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PREMIUM Arbitrator reinstates CPKC locomotive engineer fired over derailment
A locomotive engineer dismissed by Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway after his train ran through a switch and derailed a tanker car in the Lethbridge, Alta., rail yard has been… …
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PREMIUM Goeasy executive awarded eight months’ notice, bonus and equity
A senior vice-president dismissed without cause from financial services company Goeasy is entitled to eight months’ reasonable notice, his bonus, and the value of vested and unvested equity, the Ontario… …


