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AN ALBERTA worker who was
caught trying to resell company
product online after buying it
with an employee discount de-
served dismissal, an arbitrator
has ruled.
The worker was employed
with Simmons Canada, a com-
pany that manufactures and sells
bedding sets, working as a fin-
ishing foundation coordinator at
the company's Calgary bedding
plant, working the night shift.
Simmons had a bedding pur-
chase policy that allowed employ-
ees to buy up to five bedding sets
per year. The policy prohibited
Strike called
Twenty-one school custodians, cleaners
at Manitoba's Rolling River School walk
off jobs after talks break down over wage
increases
EDUCATION
Kwantlen Polytechnic
Surrey, B.C.
(1,070 faculty employees) and the Kwantlen Faculty Association (KFA),
Local 5 Federation of Post-Secondary Educators (FPSE)
Renewal agreement: Effect-
ive April 1, 2019 to March 31,
2022. Signed on July 21, 2020.
Shift premium: 25% in lieu of
benefits for overload, for time
period in question, for regular
and non-regular type 2 faculty
members who teach overloads;
may be taken as compensatory
see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Offering > pg.8
Story doesn't add up for fired Ontario worker;
no explanation why he walked away with 2 rugs
AN ONTARIO rug company had just cause to fire
a worker who took two rugs without permission or
payment, an arbitrator has ruled.
Multy Home is a company in Concord, Ont.,
that manufactures and sells rugs. The worker was a
forklift operator at the warehouse where rugs were
stored for shipping, hired in 2006.
On Sept. 12, 2020, security cameras recorded the
worker and a coworker removing four rugs from the
shipping area and placing them in the coworker's
car. The worker drove the car to the other end of
the parking lot, where he put two of the rugs into his
own car.
When management viewed the surveillance
footage, it launched an investigation that included
interviews of both the worker and his coworker.
The coworker explained that he had paid for four
rugs, which he could verify with a purchase slip. He
said he had only taken home two rugs before be-
cause he was waiting for a different colour and type
November 8, 2021
see Stealing> pg.8
Coca-Cola Canada Bottling — Alberta pg. 3
Regional Municipality of Durham Police Services
Board — Ontario pg. 4 The Town Of Drayton Valley
— Alberta pg. 5 Community Living Sarnia-
Lambton — Ontario pg. 7
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Alberta worker fired for trying
to resell employer's mattresses