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October 24, 2016
Harasser fired after bad behaviour
brings denials and accusations
Worker denied making
sexual comments; tried
to paint victims as liars
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
ANNOYING co-workers with inappropriate and
sexually charged comments and gestures may not be
as serious as sexual coercion, but denying them and
accusing those co-workers of lying can make the mis-
conduct worthy of dismissal.
Abshir Elmi was a temporary full-time shelter sup-
port worker for the City of Ottawa, hired in 2006.
Combined with his experience before becoming
employed with the city, he had 25 years as a support
worker.
During this career, Elmi had no history of serious
discipline or harassment complaints against him.
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
Worker caught red-handed accepting marijuana pg. 8
Construction Labour Relations Association of Manitoba — Manitoba pg. 3
Jones Marine Services — British Columbia pg. 3 Cornerstone Industrial —
Alberta pg. 4 Olymel — Alberta pg. 5 Peace River School Division No. 10
— Alberta pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
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pg. 2
Mine workers locked out
Lafarge and USW fail to agree
on new deal, so workers have
been sent home
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Five > pg. 7
EDUCATION
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C.
(1,530 teaching assistants) and Teaching Support Staff Union
Renewal agreement: Effective
May 1, 2014, to April 30, 2019.
Signed on April 21, 2016.
Wage adjustments:
Effective May 1, 2016: 0.5%
increase and 0.45% economic
stability dividend.
Overtime: Time and one-half
for work more than 17 contact
hours per week.
Managing Unionized Environments, Nov. 1-3, 2016: Vic toria
Living the Collective Agreement
Mastering Fac t-Finding & Investigation, Nov. 15-18, 2016: Halifax
Building Internal Capacity to Effectively Deal with Workplace Complaints
irc.queensu.ca
see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Arbitration > pg 8
Professor's extra work
during vacation his own choice
AN ALBERTA professor felt it
was his duty to respond to student
emails during his vacation, even
though it was the policy at Atha-
basca University for him to wait
until he returned to active duty.
Robert Barnetson worked in
the Faculty of Humanities and So-
cial Sciences at the distance learn-
ing post-secondary institution.
He had been with the school since
2004 as a tutor and a full-time pro-
fessor since 2007.
On Jan. 26, 2015, Barnetson
