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AN ONTARIO worker's harass-
ment complaint against a co-
worker was overblown but not
malicious or intentionally false, an
arbitrator has ruled.
The worker, an employee of the
Independent Electricity System
Operator (IESO) — a Crown cor-
poration responsible for operating
the electricity market in Ontario
— made a harassment complaint
on Oct. 31, 2018. He alleged that
he entered the employer's male
change room and a coworker —
referred to as "C" — said in a loud
voice, "Come on… why are you
always doing that, can't we get a
3-year deal
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AUTOMOTIVE PARTS
Wescast Industries
Wingham, Ont.
(230 manufacturing workers) and Unifor, Local 4207
Renewal agreement: Effective
July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2023.
Ratified in July 2020. Signed
on July 22, 2020.
Wage adjustments:
Effective July 1, 2020: 0.9%
Effective July 1, 2021: 0.9%
Effective July 1, 2022: 0.9%
Shift premium: $0.50 per
hour multi-skilling premium
(employee working outside
see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Five-day > pg.8
see Clerical > pg.8
Hospital employee fired after
wrongly accessing patient records
AN ONTARIO hospital worker's firing for im-
properly accessing the patient records of her co-
workers has been upheld by an arbitrator.
The worker was a clerical associate in the en-
doscopy and cystoscopy (endo-cysto) department
of the William Osler Health Centre, a hospital in
Toronto, who was hired in 1989. Her job duties in-
cluded registering patients, compiling monthly sta-
tistics, and faxing and printing documents. She had
access to a computerized information system called
Meditech that was used to enter patient informa-
tion at registration.
Meditech was password protected and employ-
ees were instructed not to share their passwords
or leave their computers logged in as the systems
contained private health information. In addition,
Ontario legislation and the hospital's policies only
allowed persons in a patient's circle of care to ac-
cess a patient's private health information. The
hospital provided annual training on its policies
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Sprinkler Association — Multiprovince pg. 4 Yellowknife Public
Denominational District Education Authority — Northwest
Territories pg.5 O.J. Industrial Maintenance — Alberta pg.6
National Capital Road Builders Association — Ottawa pg.7
February 8, 2021
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ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
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COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Harassment claim unfounded
but not malicious: Arbitrator
