Drug Testing

A conductor with Alstom Transport Canada Inc., the contractor that operates and maintains GO Transit’s rail fleet for Metrolinx, who was fired after refusing a post-incident drug and alcohol test …

A Canadian National Railway Company maintenance worker who was fired both for a workplace safety incident and for testing positive for marijuana has been ordered reinstated by a labour arbitrator,… …

The Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board has dismissed an appeal by GFL Environmental and upheld a wage assessment for a worker who was fired after testing positive for cannabis. The Board …

An arbitrator has ordered the Toronto Transit Commission to immediately stop randomly testing its safety-sensitive employees for drugs and alcohol, ruling the seven-year-old program violates both the Charter of Rights… …

The Toronto Transit Commission has been ordered to reinstate a subway operator it fired following a non-compliant random drug test, after a labour arbitrator found the testing violated the Ontario… …

A Toronto Transit Commission bus operator fired after a random drug test came back non-compliant for cannabis has been ordered reinstated with full compensation, after an Ontario labour arbitrator found… …

An arbitrator has ruled that Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway’s 28-day cannabis ban, its lowered oral fluid drug testing thresholds and a rule requiring newly hired trainees to undergo two… …

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… …

An arbitrator has overturned a 30-day suspension and quashed mandatory drug testing imposed on a railway signal maintainer, ruling that a positive urinalysis for THC metabolites does not constitute proof… …

An Alberta employer has been denied cost relief for workers’ compensation costs after a worker was terminated for workplace safety concerns following a positive drug test for cocaine and cannabis, …