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Canadian HR Reporter: Worker fired for performance issues, not for raising safety concerns: board

September 4, 2024

Nhi Huynh provided her analysis of a recent ruling from the Ontario Labour Board, which found there was no reprisal in the dismissal of a worker who had previously raised health and safety concerns.

See an excerpt below:

Worker fired for performance issues, not for raising safety concerns: board

‘The onus is on the employer to prove that it didn’t reprise against the employee’: lawyer

The dismissal of a worker shortly after he raised two health and safety concerns wasn’t a reprisal, the Ontario Labour Relations Board has ruled.

Read more via Canadian HR Reporter.