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November 21, 2016
Driver rehired after dismissal
for not providing documents
Ontario company
had enough of numerous
unsupported absences
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
AN ONTARIO worker who was fired for failing to
provide requested medical information to support
numerous absences has been given another chance by
an arbitrator.
The worker was a forklift driver at a Mississauga,
Ont., distribution centre for Winners, the retail cloth-
ing company. She was hired in 1991.
Starting in 2010, the worker began having trouble
with excessive absenteeism, missing 53 days of work
that year. The following year, her absences increased
to 70 days, then 155 days in 2012 and 165 days in 2013.
The worker attributed some of her many absences
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
Canada Bread Company — Alberta pg. 3 Playtime Gaming Group — British
Columbia pg. 3 Canadian Utility Contstruction — Alberta pg. 4
Government of Yukon — Yukon pg. 5 New Brunswick Treasury Board — New
Brunswick pg. 5
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
jorome
(Shutterstock)
pg. 2
School bus deal ratified
Students in Toronto, York
Region won't face labour
disruptions as Unifor
members agree
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Employee > pg. 7
FOOD SERVICES
Aramark Canada
Lindsay, Ont.
(10 food-service workers) and United Food and
Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW), Local 175
Renewal agreement: Effective
March 1, 2016, to Feb. 28, 2019.
Signed on Aug. 18, 2016.
Wage adjustments:
Effective March 1, 2017: $0.30
per hour.
Effective March 1, 2018: $0.30
per hour.
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see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Arbitration > pg 8
Disabled workers paid health
premiums but denied benefits
FIVE PERMANENTLY disabled
former employees were suddenly
denied benefits after a new collec-
tive agreement was reached.
North Eastern Ontario Fam-
ily and Children's Services (NEO-
FACS) provides services to youth
and families in Cochrane and Ti-
miskaming in northern Ontario.
NEOFACS was created after an
amalgamation of two agencies in
2012.
Both of the previous agencies
were represented by two unions,
Attendance points system unilaterally imposed by company: Union pg. 8
