A Toronto-area transit bus operator will continue to receive workers’ compensation benefits for a work-related post-traumatic stress disorder that left him permanently unable to work near public transit vehicles, the… …
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PREMIUM BMO Nesbitt Burns can call police officer as witness in reprisal hearing
The Ontario Labour Relations Board has denied a motion to block a Toronto Police Service constable from testifying in a reprisal complaint against BMO Nesbitt Burns, ruling the officer’s evidence… …
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PREMIUM University Health Network can waive six-month job posting rule, arbitrator finds
A Toronto hospital retained the discretion to consider a worker for a new position even though he had been in his current role for less than six months, an Ontario… …
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PREMIUM WSIB ordered to stop excluding union rep from meetings after criminal charges filed
The Ontario Labour Relations Board has ordered the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board to stop refusing to participate in meetings and hearings where a union national representative is present, pending… …
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FeaturedProfessional Misconduct
Dental patient’s claim that bad bridgework cost her job rejected in Ontario review
An Ontario dental oversight board has confirmed a decision to take no further action against a Toronto-area dentist after a patient alleged his temporary bridgework left her teeth so unattractive …
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FeaturedSexual Harassment
Jack Astor’s worker’s human rights complaint dismissed as filed too late, tribunal finds
A cook who alleged sexual harassment by her kitchen manager at a Jack Astor’s restaurant in Toronto has had her human rights application dismissed after the Human Rights Tribunal of …
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Arbitration/Labour RelationsFeatured
Rogers Centre beer servers lose bid to force union arbitration after tip fraud dismissal
Ontario’s Labour Relations Board has dismissed a complaint brought by two former Rogers Centre beer servers who alleged their union failed them after they were fired for what their employer …
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YMCA of Greater Toronto ordered to produce performance data in pregnancy discrimination case
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has ordered the YMCA of Greater Toronto to produce internal performance records in a disability and pregnancy discrimination case brought by a current employee …
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PREMIUM Positive urine test insufficient to prove cannabis impairment for railway worker: Arbitrator
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… …
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PREMIUM Arbitrator reinstates steel plant worker fired for cannabis use during lunch break
A steel plant worker who was fired after being observed smoking cannabis during his lunch break has been reinstated with a three-month suspension, after an arbitrator found the dismissal was… …