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Employers can take comfort in what the law actually is.
This week, I will address whether breaching COVID-19 health and safety protocols is cause for dismissal.
With the pandemic dragging on seemingly interminably, many employees are increasingly lax in adhering to employers’ COVID-19 rules. Inertia, fatigue and resistance prevail too often.
Juxtapose this with their employers, at risk of massive fines and negligence actions if they do not enforce workplace safety. Do they then have the leeway to fire such employees with impunity?
One Entrust Adult Inc. employee attended work the day after returning from the United States, despite his Edmonton-based employer’s policy requiring a 14-day quarantine. When other workers became sick and tested positive for COVID-19, Alberta Health Services notified Entrust of these employees’ test results and advised that this employee had travelled to the U.S. when it learned that he had come to the office right after being in the U.S. Entrust
Faculty association files complaints against Medicine Hat College over contract talk tactics
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The faculty association at Medicine Hat College has filed labour board complaints stating the institution’s board of governors is attempting to undermine its authority as the two sides discuss a new contract.
The association filed seven complaints stating the employer had improper conversations with its members, was coercive and directed them not to engage the association on employment issues.
That was an “effort to undermine the credibility of the union and the collective bargaining process,” according to the application filed with the Alberta Labour Relations Board on March 22.
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Alberta Health Services disciplines hundreds of workers who joined wildcat strike
Alberta Health Services (AHS) has suspended at least 27 workers for up to five days and issued disciplinary letters to hundreds more for participating in a province-wide wildcat strike last October. Seven-hundred-and-seventy-one workers have filed grievances against the management action, and other workers who also received letters are expected to soon follow suit.
The AHS, which is an arm of Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP)-led government, has also reported at least 8 nurses to the provincial body which regulates the nursing profession in the province. This could ultimately jeopardize their right to work in Alberta as licensed nurses.