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Sunwing Airlines worker goes overboard
with unfounded harassment allegations
A CANADIAN airline had good reason to re-
quest medical clearance for a return to work and
then dismiss a flight-crew worker who made per-
sistent, unfounded allegations of harassment and
threats, according to an arbitrator.
Margarida Carrasqueiras was a cabin safety
manager for Toronto-based Sunwing Airlines. In
March 2016, Carrasqueiras emailed Sunwing's
payroll department requesting vacation pay owed
for the past 10 years. She said that her vacation pay
had not been calculated based on the hours she
actually worked.
Sunwing replied that it was discussing the vaca-
tion pay issue with the union and would inform all
employees soon. Carrasqueiras emailed back with
exclamation marks to say it wasn't a union issue
but about her labour code rights. She emphatical-
ly asked for "my payment as dictated by law."
Carrasqueiras met with the vice-president of
inflight operations and her manager on March
Arbitrator award
OPSEU pharmacy technicians
gain six per cent wage hike
Being 'thoughtlessly unproductive'
is not time theft: arbitrator
A BRITISH COLUMBIA work-
er's wasting of two hours on his
shift was worthy of a suspension
but not dismissal, an arbitrator
has ruled.
Justin Karleen was employed
with Sofina Foods — a manufac-
turer of meat and poultry prod-
ucts — at its Abbotsford, B.C.
plant. Hired in September 2016,
Karleen worked in the shipping
department. He had a good per-
formance evaluation and one in-
stance of discipline on his record
— a July 2019 verbal warning for
not completing all his tasks.
GOVERNMENT
City of Cold Lake
Cold Lake, Alta.
(118 municipal employees) and the Alberta Union of Pro-
vincial Employees (AUPE), Local 118/016
Renewal agreement: Effective
Jan. 1, 2018 to Dec. 31, 2021.
Ratified on Aug. 7, 2018. Signed
on Aug. 30, 2019.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2018: 1.5%
Effective Jan. 1, 2019: 1.5%
Effective Jan. 1, 2020: 1.75%
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Grande Spirit Foundation — Alberta pg. 4 Landmark Transport/
Landmark Cartage Services/Landmark Logistics — British Columbia
pg. 5 The Banff Centre — Alberta pg. 5 Nova Scotia Power —
Nova Scotia pg. 7
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
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see Worker > pg. 8
see Employee's > pg. 8
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