"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
24 February 2008Fight for your right to stay homeI once got an award from an employer for not missing any work in five years. How times have changed:
Coast Mountain Bus Company has lost a human-rights complaint brought by employees who say they were discriminated against for missing too much work because they were chronically sick, disabled or injured.
The [British Columbia] Human Rights Tribunal ruling called it discriminatory to place workers with high rates of absenteeism into Coast Mountain's so-called "attendance management program." The ruling [link goes to PDF file] is here. Ezra Levant reads the ruling so you don't have to:
With some of the worse offenders — see paragraph 189 for the woman who missed 118 days of work or paragraph 237 for the employee who missed 98% of work days — the bus company tried such brutal tactics as asking meekly for a doctor's note.
The bus company was fined for such inhumanity. And paragraph 712 completes the farce:
With respect to those individuals who have been placed at Level 3 of the AMP since six months prior to the filing of the complaint, I order that CMBC pay the following in respect of injury to dignity feelings, and self-respect.
Got that, folks? Hurt feelings are actionable. So here's the answer to my chronic datelessness: move to Canada. If she turns me down, I can sue. Posted at 7:22 PM to TANSTAAFLI am totally with the offended: people should be paid for every day they are coming to work! Er... OK, I shall think about it, fine. Posted by: SnoopyTheGoon at 1:56 PM on 28 February 2008 |