A recent Ontario arbitration decision has illustrated that a serious workplace safety incident can lead to termination. While the appropriateness of discipline will always turn on the specific circumstances, the case of Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations v. Sudbury Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers’ Union Unifor, Local 598, [2015] CanLII 32018 provides a useful example of when termination is justified following a workplace accident.

In this instance a mining trolley became derailed from its’ tracks […]

On August 20, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a plaintiff could not prevail on a Title VII religious discrimination claim where there was no evidence the employer knew that the reason that the plaintiff refused to complete a job duty, which led to the employee’s termination, was that she had a conflicting religious belief.

Plaintiff Kelsey Nobach (“Nobach”) worked for Defendant Woodland Village Nursing Center (“Woodland”) as a […]