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'Bullets' comment made in heat
of illegal strike not harassment
Not every inappropriate
comment is harassment:
Arbitrator
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
AN ARBITRATOR has determined that the director
of an Alberta correctional centre did not harass correc-
tional officers about to go on an illegal strike when the
director made a gesture like a gun and referred to hav-
ing bullets for them.
The Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre in
Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., issued a sexual and work-
place harassment policy in November 2012 that
stated it was committed to providing a "working
environment free of harassment." The policy was
zero-tolerance and defined workplace harassment as
"unwelcome conduct that is offensive in nature and
April 25, 2016
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
Retired employee collecting payout not eligible for wage increase pg. 8
AgeCare Investments — Alberta pg. 3 Iqaluit Housing Authority — Nunavut
pg. 4 Government of New Brunswick — New Brunswick pg. 5 Fredericton
International Airport Authority — New Brunswick pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
Stephen
Lam
(Reuters)
pg. 2
OPSEU members
ratify contract at Public
Health Ontario
Agreement includes
wage increases
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Agreement > pg. 7
Employees leave for good
after leaving work early
THE City of Kingston, Ont., fired
Willie Loyst and Steve Dervenis
for time theft.
Loyst and Dervenis worked
for the city as arena operators be-
fore they were terminated on June
26, 2015. Their union, the Cana-
dian Union of Public Employees
(CUPE) Local 109, grieved the ter-
minations.
By the time of the hearing, both
Loyst and Dervenis had admitted to
the facts relied upon by the employ-
er to substantiate their time theft.
CONSTRUCTION
Construction Labour
Relations Trade Division
Edmonton
(780 insulation workers) and the International Association of Heat
and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers Local Union 110
Renewal agreement: Effective
May 17, 2015, to April 30, 2019.
Signed on June 17, 2015.
Shift premium: $1 per hour
A comment made to correctional officers participating in an illegal strike led to an
investigation and allegations of harassment under the employer's policy.
see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Arbitration > pg 8
