A correctional officer who spent four days helping investigate a work refusal over a malfunctioning fire and smoke detection system has been awarded overtime pay by the Federal Public Sector …
Tag:
Correctional Officers
-
-
A British Columbia correctional officer who was placed on unpaid leave for nearly 10 months while the province assessed his religious exemption from a COVID-19 vaccination policy will have his …
-
Mental HealthSubscriber Content
PREMIUM Tribunal allows $200K claim over memorial crosses that caused anxiety for correctional officer
A correctional officer’s application alleging the Ontario government failed to accommodate his anxiety over memorial crosses placed outside his workplace will proceed to a hearing before the Human Rights Tribunal… …
-
Arbitration/Labour RelationsMental HealthSubscriber Content
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… …
-
Arbitration/Labour RelationsFeatured
Reinstated correctional officer awarded $75,000 partial payment in Ontario
A correctional officer who was fired and later reinstated has been awarded a $75,000 partial payment on his outstanding compensation, after an arbitrator agreed to release part of what he …
-
A correctional officer who returned to work after a previous post-traumatic stress disorder claim has won her appeal at the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal in British Columbia, with the tribunal… …
-
Subscriber Content
PREMIUM B.C. court upholds dismissal of correctional officer trainee’s human rights complaint
A British Columbia court has upheld a human rights tribunal decision dismissing a discrimination complaint from a probationary correctional officer who alleged he was targeted during training because of his… …
-
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has granted a request for reconsideration after a correctional worker said he never received notice of a filing deadline, rescinding its earlier decision to …
-
FeaturedMental Health
B.C. jail guard denied workers’ comp for mental disorder after Mental Health Act apprehension
A British Columbia jail guard who developed an adjustment disorder after being apprehended under the Mental Health Act following workplace comments about suicide is not entitled to workers’ compensati… Free …
-
Mental HealthSubscriber Content
PREMIUM Tribunal denies PTSD, stress claims for correctional officer convicted of workplace crimes
A correctional officer who witnessed a colleague’s suicide in 2008 was denied compensation for a claimed recurrence of post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic mental stress after a tribunal found his… …