PM
#40065782
April 27, 2020
A CITY of Toronto worker's ter-
mination for sexual harassment
has been upheld.
Virender Khurana, 52, was a
full-time maintenance planner
and scheduler for the City of To-
ronto's water department.
In the summer of 2016, Khura-
na met a university student who
was working as a summer stu-
dent at the Toronto Island Treat-
ment Plant with him. They didn't
work directly with each other, but
sometimes had lunch in the same
group and rode the ferry back to
the city together.
Late that summer, Khurana
New contract
Canada Post, PSAC union
reach tentative agreement
A COLLECTIVE agreement provision suspending
seniority rights after a breakdown included both
bumping privileges and recall entitlements.
Rockshield Engineered Wood Products operated
a plywood overlay mill in Cochrane, Ont. Its collec-
tive agreement formally recognized the seniority of
its employees as the primary factor in layoffs and
recalls after layoffs, as long as an employee had "the
necessary qualifications of knowledge, skill and
ability to perform the work required."
There was an exception to the seniority clause, as
the agreement stipulated that "in cases of layoff due
to breakdown" employees affected by the break-
down would be "not permitted to exercise their
seniority rights to another job the same day and for
the following day on their scheduled shifts." Em-
ployees in such circumstances would be permitted
to exercise their seniority rights to obtain another
job if the breakdown lasted more than 48 hours.
GOVERNMENT
Beaver County
Ryley, Alta.
(35 municipal employees) and the International Union of Operating
Engineers (IUOE), Local 955
Renewal agreement: Effective
Aug. 20, 2019 to Aug. 19, 2020.
Ratified on Oct. 1, 2019. Signed
on Oct. 31, 2019.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 20, 2020: 1%
Shift premium: $2.75 per
hour for hours worked as lead-
hand. $4.25 per hour for hours
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Consolidated Fastfrate — Saskatchewan pg. 4 The Residential
Low Rise Forming Contractors' Association of Metropolitan
Toronto and Vicinity – Ontario pg. 4 University of Western
Ontario – Ontario pg. 5 Choices in Community Living (Legacy
Lodge) — Alberta pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Summer> pg. 8
see Employer> pg.8
Call : 1-888-858-7838
Email: irc@queensu.ca
Website: irc.queensu.ca
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Toronto city worker washed up
after harassment complaint
Seniority rights in spotlight after
shutdown at Cochrane, Ont. wood mill
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