A care aide at a residential care facility was fired for “resident abuse,” not for raising concerns about workplace bullying and harassment, the British Columbia Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal (WCAT)…
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Bittersweet victory: UFCW wins arbitration, but awarded no remedy in case with ‘unique facts and difficult realities’
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union won an arbitration case against an Ontario nursing home, but the victory was bittersweet as there was no remedy attached to the…
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LTC worker fired for stealing PPE, towels and reselling them in the Philippines
An Ontario employer has lost its bid to alter the grounds for firing a unionized worker after it said new evidence came to light during the arbitration hearing. King Nursing…