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January 16, 2017
Health-care worker didn't breach
policy, but showed poor judgment
Employee took resident's
iPad home to fix without
managerial approval
BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
A NEW BRUNSWICK health-care worker deserved
discipline for taking a resident's iPad home without
managerial approval, but didn't deserve to be fired, an
arbitrator has ruled.
The 59-year-old employee was hired in 2008 as a
housekeeper at the Riverside Court retirement resi-
dence (RC) in Woodstock, N.B. Later that year, she
transferred to RC's health-care department to be-
come a health-care aide.
The employee received orientation training and
an employee handbook that emphasized RC's policy
that no staff were permitted to receive gratuities from
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
Cameco — Ontario pg. 3 Compass Group Canada (Morrison) at Southlake
Regional Health Centre — Ontario pg. 4 Thames Developments — Ontario
pg. 4 Commercial Cleaning Services — Ontario pg. 5 Construction Labour
Relations Association of Manitoba — Manitoba pg. 5
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
Photo:
Google
Street
View
pg. 2
CUPE workers agree
Education workers in Ontario
set to vote on a tentative
contract signed with
the province
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Common > pg. 7
TRANSPORTATION
V. Ships Canada
Multiprovince
(4 unlicensed personnel) and Seafarers'
International Union of Canada (SIU)
Renewal agreement: Effective
July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2021.
Signed on Nov. 9, 2016.
Wage adjustments:
Effective July 1, 2017: 2%
Effective July 1, 2018: 2%
Effective July 1, 2019: 2%
Effective July 1, 2020: 2%
see Collective agreements > pg. 3 see Arbitration > pg 6
Lack of B.C. driver's licence
a problem for forestry worker
A JOB POSTING was awarded
to a less senior forestry worker
because that worker held a valid
driver's licence.
Rick Holland had more than
40 years' experience in the log-
ging business and was hired on
Jan. 5, 2011, as a grapple skidder
with Jordan River Logging (JRL)
on Vancouver Island in British
Columbia. In December 2015,
an open position as a skidder
operator was posted but Hol-
land missed the deadline to apply
Edmonton group home workers left early, arrived late for shifts pg. 8
