A former lifeguard’s human rights complaint against the District of Mackenzie has been dismissed by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, which found he had no reasonable prospect of proving …
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Arbitration/Labour RelationsFeaturedWorkplace Violence
B.C. janitor reinstated with four-month unpaid suspension after threatening to kill supervisor
A British Columbia labour arbitrator has ordered a SerVantage Services janitorial worker reinstated after she was fired for threatening to kill her supervisor, substituting a four-month unpaid suspens… Free Membership …
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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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Arbitration/Labour RelationsFeatured
Kootenay Lake Hospital in BC wins order for fired nurse’s medical records
A British Columbia arbitrator has ordered the British Columbia Nurses’ Union to hand over the medical records of a fired Kootenay Lake Hospital nurse, finding the employer is entitled to …
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Arbitration/Labour RelationsFeatured
Veterans unit to pay $6,000 over bartender’s medical-leave dismissal
A bartender dismissed on the day she was cleared to return to work from a one-year medical leave will receive $6,000 in general damages under a mediation-arbitration decision resolving a …
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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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Subscriber ContentWrongful Dismissal
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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FeaturedImmigrationProfessional Misconduct
Immigration consultant suspended after routing fish and chip worker’s $40,000 to personal account
A Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant will be suspended for 15 months after she recruited a worker for a British Columbia fish-and-chips restaurant, collected $40,000 in fees and deposited the m… …
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The British Columbia Supreme Court has dismissed a judicial review application from a provincial nominee whose immigration nomination was cancelled after he missed a work permit deadline and delayed r… …
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Opinion/CommentaryWrongful Dismissal
When a worker’s stalker becomes the employer’s problem
by Todd Humberby Todd HumberThe insurance producer’s manager knew what to say. When she told him, in August 2021, that a client’s representative had taken to following her car home along the highway, he …


