A part-time nursing clerk who developed persistent symptoms after receiving two COVID-19 vaccinations under her employer’s mandatory immunization policy has been denied workers’ compensation entitleme… Free Membership Required To continue …
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Ontario nurse suspended three months for billing unattended home visits
A registered practical nurse who billed her employer for four home-care appointments she did not attend will have her certificate of registration suspended for three months after admitting to professi… …
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Ontario nurses launch Charter challenge to overturn 1965 arbitration law
The Ontario Nurses’ Association has filed a constitutional challenge seeking to strike down a 1965 law that bans hospital and long-term care nurses from taking job action. The union says …
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PREMIUM Ontario’s top court upholds dismissal of healthcare workers’ vaccine lawsuit
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has dismissed an appeal brought by more than 400 current and former healthcare workers who challenged the striking of their lawsuit against the provincial… …
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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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Bethany Care met duty to accommodate health care aide in Alberta: arbitrator
An Alberta arbitrator has dismissed three grievances filed by the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees on behalf of a health care aide who alleged her employer failed to accommodate her …
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B.C. court strikes LPN supervisor’s defamation suits against co-workers, steers it to arbitration
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has struck two defamation actions brought by a former Fraser Health Authority supervisor against two co-workers, finding the claims belong in labour arbitration,… Free …
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A medical secretary who worked nearly two decades for a small Ontario respirology clinic lost her wrongful dismissal claim after the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found the clinic had …
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A British Columbia health-care worker has been found guilty of sexually assaulting three female colleagues during an evacuation deployment to Vancouver, in a ruling issued by the Provincial Court of …
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PREMIUM Arbitrator upholds firing of LPN who photographed naked resident
A Newfoundland and Labrador arbitrator has upheld the discharge of a licensed practical nurse employed at a long-term care facility after finding she took and shared a photograph of a… …


