Chelsea Baird
Aug 02, 2002
A man we will call Jimmy worked as the regional manager of a trucking company in British Columbia for almost 18 years.
Chelsea Baird
Jun 03, 2002
A man we will call Ted started working a company in 1997 as a labourer. A year later, having proved himself as a valuable employee, he was promoted to the position of welder. In October of 1999, while helping a supervisor lift a heavy piece of metal, he strained his back.. His supervisor told him to rest in the lunch room and see if the pain in his lower back subsided.
Ed Canning
May 13, 2002
QUESTION: Until recently, I was the general manager of a company. After 5 years of service, the chief executive officer told me that he was tired of me undermining and questioning his authority (I thought we had a good relationship) and that he was letting me go. He told me that he would be forwarding me a letter offering me 11 weeks’ wages. Is this right? Can he do this?
Dave
May 13, 2002
QUESTION: Until recently, I was the general manager of a company. After 5 years of service, the chief executive officer told me that he was tired of me undermining and questioning his authority (I thought we had a good relationship) and that he was letting me go. He told me that he would be forwarding me a letter offering me 11 weeks’ wages. Is this right? Can he do this?
Ed Canning
Mar 18, 2002
QUESTION: I worked as half of a 2 person driving team with my husband driving a transport truck. One day I was in the back of the cab putting away supplies when a small fridge fell off a shelf above me and landed on my head. I have been on WSIB now for some time and have been told that my head, neck and back injuries will take a long time to heal. My doctors have told me that chronic pain has set in and that it is very likely that I will never return to driving truck. I have no idea what to do next. I cannot imagine finding work that I can do that would pay me anywhere near the same money I made working with my husband. Do you have any ideas?
Ed Canning
Jan 31, 2002
QUESTION: I suffered an injury at work and following months of physiotherapy, tests and specialists, WSIB decided that I had a permanent injury that prevented me from doing my job. While my employer did make modifications to my work to accommodate my injuries, they did not like WSIB's decision. They sent WSIB 6 hours of video tape taken of me in the workplace and around my house to try to show that I was not really injured. Luckily, WSIB rejected that evidence because it did not show me doing anything that my injuries would not allow. Do they have a right to do this?
Ed Canning
Jan 12, 2002
The announcement last week that the Hamilton Police Service will be installing ten 24 hour a day digital video cameras in public places in downtown Hamilton is a brilliant, if perhaps too modest, proposal.