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January 9, 2017
Both sides must uphold obligations
around accommodation: Ruling
Providing medical reports
to support absence
part of employee's duty
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
A RAILWAY worker didn't live up to his part of the
accommodation process when he failed to respond to
his employer's requests for updated medical informa-
tion, justifying the employer's closure of his employ-
ment file, the Canadian Railway Office of Arbitration
and Dispute Resolution has ruled.
The worker was an employee of the Canadian Pa-
cific Railway Company (CP) and became subject to
medical restrictions in 2013 that prevented him from
working his regular job. Starting in October of that
year, CP began accommodating the worker's restric-
tions.
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
First Air — Multiprovince pg. 3 North Central Co-op — Alberta pg. 4
Vancouver City Saving Credit Union (VanCity) — British Columbia pg. 6
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
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pg. 2
Workers locked out
Unifor employees at
aerospace company in
Newfoundland
locked out
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Worker > pg. 7
MANUFACTURING
Maple Leaf Consumer Foods
Winnipeg
(1,250 workers, plant and maintenance employees) and
United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (CLC)
Renewal agreement: Effective
Jan. 1, 2016, to Dec. 31, 2020.
Signed on June 22, 2016.
Wage adjustments:
Effective Jan. 1, 2016: $0.30 per
hour for general classifications,
$0.40 per hour for semiskilled
and skilled classifications
see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Arbitration > pg 8
Senior detective reinstated
despite dating ex-criminal
AFTER CONTINUING a rela-
tionship with a former criminal,
a senior detective in Abbotsford,
B.C., with 21 years of experience
was suspended and demoted by
the police chief.
On March 23, 2015, chief con-
stable Bob Rich ordered the detec-
tive (whose name was not publicly
revealed) to stop any further con-
tact with a man identified as "Mr.
A."
The man had recently been re-
leased from prison after he served
Railway conductor suddenly finds employment file closed by employer pg. 8
