By The Canadian Press Staff TORONTO -- A bus driver sent home to change out of the kilt he wore to work on a casual Friday was not a victim of anti-Scottish discrimination, Ontario's human rights tribunal has ruled. In its decision, the tribunal decided that Tracy Macdonnell had provided no evidence the directive from [...]
By Alyse Kotyk VANCOUVER -- A former employee of a B.C. winery won't be getting his job back after thousands of litres of wine were accidentally flushed down a drain. The former Mission Hill employee – who was fired with cause – filed a grievance that was heard before a labour arbitrator in December. The [...]
By Ryan Flanagan TORONTO -- The owner of greeting card retailers including Carlton Cards and Papyrus is closing all of its stores in North America, including 76 Canadian locations. Most of the closures will take place over the next four to six weeks, Schurman Retail Group CEO Dominique Schurman told CTVNews.ca in a statement. Another [...]
By Graham Slaughter TORONTO -- A Canadian retailer that specializes in engraved gifts suddenly fired all of its store associates and most head office employees on Thursday, giving them less than 24 hours' notice and leaving customers with newly-engraved items in the lurch. “I engraved an engagement ring last night. There’s a memorial plate for [...]
By Sarah Rieger An arbitrator has upheld the City of Calgary's decision to fire a Calgary Transit bus driver who allegedly sexually harassed his colleague, after the union grieved the man's dismissal. The bus driver had been employed with Transit for four-and-a-half years at the time of his dismissal, which happened two months after the incident. [...]
By Graham Slaughter TORONTO -- A Canadian man says he was fired from a job he held for six years because he complained on Twitter about receiving a $6 bottle of barbecue sauce as a holiday gift. Hussien Mehaidli, 27, worked as a general manager for Fastenal, a U.S.-based wholesaler of construction materials that operates [...]
By Staff The Canadian Press The Federal Court has approved a $900-million agreement that will settle multiple class-action lawsuits by survivors of sexual harassment and assault in the military. The federal government agreed in July to pay $800 million for members of the Canadian Armed Forces and $100 million for another class of employees of the Department of National Defence [...]
Jean-Pierre Pelchat was a Statistics Canada agronomist when his supervisor, Kimberly Boyuk, left a note on his monitor that read: 'Come see me right away. Kim' A public servant who responded angrily to a Post-it note left on his computer by a manager has had his one-day suspension upheld by the federal labour relations board. [...]
A Sudbury woman is fighting to get her job back after being terminated while on maternity leave. Amy Gravelle says she was on maternity leave from Canadian Blood Services in Sudbury when she was called into the office and told that there would be no job for her to return to. She was told her [...]
'It appears that these allegations were not taken seriously,' says chief commissioner David Arnot Guy Quenneville - CBC News Posted: October 31, 2019 Last Updated: October 31, 2019 In addition to an ongoing human rights complaint filed against him, two other co-workers of former Mendel Art Gallery and Remai Modern CEO Gregory Burke made allegations dating [...]