Canada: Alberta worker placed on one-year unpaid suspension for cannabis use

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Canada’s Leader Post reports The employee was originally terminated after consuming cannabis while attending a company training course. While attending the training seminar, the employee reportedly consumed cannabis on two consecutive evenings to help fall asleep. An employee with Nav Canada, which runs the air navigation system over Canada and part of the North Atlantic Ocean, has been placed on unpaid suspension for a year for violating the company’s drug policy, an Alberta arbitrator has ruled. After completing coursework the following day, the employee smoked cannabis while on a walk outside. A one-year unpaid suspension was deemed to provide “a strong specific deterrent for the [worker] and a significant general deterrent for other employees.” “A one-year suspension is almost unheard of — it’s shocking to have an outcome of discipline that serious,” Snowdon added. “Where termination is viewed as too serious, a one-year suspension is awfully close to termination as far as discipline goes, in my mind.” Source:  https://leaderpost.com/cannabis-news/alberta-worker-placed-on-one-year-unpaid-suspension-for-cannabis-use

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Canada’s Leader Post reports

The employee was originally terminated after consuming cannabis while attending a company training course.

An employee with Nav Canada, which runs the air navigation system over Canada and part of the North Atlantic Ocean, has been placed on unpaid suspension for a year for violating the company’s drug policy, an Alberta arbitrator has ruled.

The employee, who works in a safety-sensitive position in Vancouver, was originally terminated after the worker consumed cannabis while attending a course at the company’s training centre in Ontario, according to HR...

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