The Resort Municipality of Whistler’s practice of paying out banked overtime at an employee’s current wage rate, rather than the rate in effect when the overtime was earned, does not …
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Trillium Health Partners porter denied sick benefits over stress claim
A Trillium Health Partners porter was not entitled to short-term disability benefits after a workplace encounter left him feeling disrespected, an Ontario arbitrator has ruled, though she found the ho… …
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Arbitrator upholds City of Toronto bar on worker’s return pending medical assessment
A City of Toronto municipal standards officer who was kept out of the workplace pending a medical assessment has lost a grievance challenging that decision, after an arbitrator found the …
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Ontario’s WSIB must restore flex work before office return, arbitrator rules
The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board must restore existing flex work arrangements for eligible field staff at least 30 days before they return to the office, the Ontario Grievance Settlement …
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Toronto Community Housing worker subpoenaed over licence plate report loses safety grievance
An Ontario labour arbitrator has dismissed a grievance filed by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 79 on behalf of a Toronto Community Housing Corporation worker who claimed the …
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Education assistant’s lawsuit against CUPE in New Brunswick barred by signed release
A former educational assistant lost her appeal against the Canadian Union of Public Employees after the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick found that a release she signed when she …
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PREMIUM Toronto Hydro vaccine policy upheld but workers get ESA pay
Toronto Hydro had just cause to terminate workers who refused to comply with its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, an Ontario arbitrator has ruled, but those workers remain entitled to termination… …
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An arbitrator has dismissed a policy grievance from the union representing British Columbia paramedics that sought shift premiums for members participating in employer-offered training they were not r… Free Membership …
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PREMIUM Wood Buffalo workers awarded damages over CAO’s mass-layoff notice
An Alberta arbitrator has ordered the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo to pay $300 to each member of a CUPE bargaining unit and reimburse the union $68,193, finding the former… …
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Bullying complaint at City of Kamloops returns to arbitration after jurisdiction ruling overturned
A workplace bullying and harassment complaint will proceed to arbitration after the British Columbia Labour Relations Board found an arbitrator wrongly declined jurisdiction over key parts of the disp… Free …

