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Intoxicated, dishonest
— and reinstated with full pay
Saskatchewan employer
ignored sunset clause
in collective agreement
BY TODD HUMBER
BREACHING A SO-CALLED "sunset clause" in a
collective agreement is a quick way to ensure a termi-
nation won't stand up to an arbitrator's scrutiny.
That's a lesson that management at the Mont St.
Joseph nursing home in Prince Albert, Sask., learned
after it fired a continuing care assistant who showed
up for her shift drunk.
The arbitrators systematically tore apart the em-
ployer's logic for terminating Louise Storey, who be-
gan working for the home in 2007 and was fired on
June 19, 2014.
Even if the nursing home had been justified in
September 19, 2016
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
Truck driver should have been more careful after freezing rain pg. 8
Canadian Media Producers — British Columbia pg. 5 Dow Chemical and
Shell Canada — Alberta pg. 6 Queen's University — Ontario pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
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pg. 2
Suncor unionized
More workers in Alberta are
joining one of the country's
largest unions
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Domestic > pg. 7
Calgary nursing worker fired
after touching co-workers
A CALGARY nursing assistant
was fired for cause after fellow
workers complained she improp-
erly touched them repeatedly
while on the job.
In April 2014, Fenny Mendoza
was accused of sexual touching
by Jacquie Gorsalitz and Louise
Lovett, both nursing attendants
who worked with Mendoza on the
night shift at Carewest.
During repeated interviews
with the employer, Mendoza de-
nied that any sexual touching took
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
City of Yellowknife
Yellowknife, N.W.T.
(7 workers, municipal law enforcement officers) and
the Public Service Alliance of Canada (CLC)
Renewal agreement: Effective
Jan. 1, 2016, to Dec. 31, 2019.
Signed on July 12, 2016.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2016: 1.5%
Effective Jan. 1, 2017: 1.5%
Effective Jan. 1, 2018: 2%
Effective Jan. 1, 2019: 2.5%
see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Arbitration > pg 8
