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Jan 16, 2017

Not Wearing Safety Glasses - Reinstated with Full Compensation

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Jan 16, 2017

Arbitrator finds that mandatory leave program unilaterally imposed by employer is violation of the collective agreement and orders employee compensated.

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Dec 16, 2016

On-Duty Injury - Reinstatement with Full Compensation

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Sep 16, 2016

Arbitrator reinstates discharged employee and provides comment with respect to the scope of the duty to accommodate an employee with a drug or alcohol addiction.

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Jul 22, 2016

Arbitrator finds that if a supervisor improperly shares a worker's disability and private medical information, it can result in damages awarded to the employee against the employer. It sets a helpful precedent for all jurisdictions.

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Jun 29, 2016

Volunteering Information

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Jun 05, 2016

Ken was successful in reducing a nine-day Major Suspension to a two-day Minor Suspension, as the Arbitrator concluded that the Employer shared some of the responsibility for the incident.

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Apr 28, 2016

Arbitrator concludes that company failed to prove employee "knowingly and purposefully" threatened a co-worker by stating that he would choke him with his jacket. Discharge reduced to a five-day suspension.

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Mar 18, 2016

Ken and Aleisha were successful in achieving the probationary employee's reinstatement. The Arbitrator found that the grounds cited for dismissal were factually inaccurate and unfounded, and appeared to camouflage the company's discriminatory reasons.

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Dec 03, 2015

Carpenters prove Giffels Constructors Inc. to be the "true employer" in an application for certification at the OLRB.

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Oct 29, 2015

Windsor Carpenters win jurisdictional dispute against Labourers concerning concrete formwork in the heavy engineering sector.

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Oct 27, 2015

Arbitrator concludes that steps taken to change employee status of grievors in way that impacts their seniority rights is a violation of the collective agreement.

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Sep 11, 2015

The arbitrator determined that she had jurisdiction to discipline or even terminate the employment of a supervisor in the context of a harassment/discrimination but declined to do so on the basis of the specific facts in the case before her.

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Sep 11, 2015

The arbitrator determined that he had jurisdiction to award damages to an employee on account of the employer's failure to take reasonable steps to provide a safe and healthy working environment.

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Sep 11, 2015

The arbitrator determined that when an employee was required to attend a meeting for the purposes of an "assessment" to determine potential redeployment, the meeting constituted "work" and accordingly should be compensated.

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Sep 11, 2015

The OLRB concluded that the work in dispute (fabrication, installation, releasing and stripping the forms used in concrete formwork) had been incorrectly assigned to the Labourers on the basis of a finding that the work in dispute was ICI sector work.

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Sep 09, 2015

Millwrights successfully defend Iron Workers' jurisdictional challenge to work assignment on steel mill machinery at the Ontario Labour Relations Board.

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Sep 09, 2015

Arbitrator confirms union's interpretation of its jurisdiction as defined in the collective agreement and declares failure to recall employee to be a violation of the collective agreement.

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Sep 03, 2015

The CIRB has found CP Rail to have committed an unfair labour practice by limiting leaves of absences for Union officers.

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Sep 03, 2015

The Ontario Labour Relations Board found that CUPE Local 79 - and not Local 416 - was the appropriate bargaining agent to represent the newly created classification at TCHC.

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