Department of Education ordered to pay teacher, principal, $35,000 and $45,000 damages, for breaches of collective agreement and statutory health and safety obligations arising from uncontrolled behaviour of special needs student

A New Brunswick labour arbitrator has held that a Department of Education operating a provincial school board must pay a teacher and principal aggravated damages of $35,000 and $45,000 respectively – as well as wage loss damages to the principal who took premature retirement following a diagnosis of PTSD –  for breaching its statutory and collective agreement obligations to protect the health and safety of its teaching staff from assaults by a student with special needs.

Interest arbitrator awards Ontario doctors 6.95% catch-up and 3.0% normative increase for 2024–2025 in light of inflation and the repeal of public sector wage cap legislation

After a history of challenging negotiations over physician compensation, the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) and the Province of Ontario agreed to settle the issue of doctors’ fee increases for the period from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025 through interest arbitration…

Some aspects of employer’s electronic monitoring policy were reasonable, others not, arbitrator rules

When an employer introduced a new electronic monitoring policy, the union filed a grievance claiming that it was an unreasonable exercise of management rights.