Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited cited a rare legal principle that allows it to terminate an injured worker
The most insulting thing I heard about this is that he reported the bay door more than once for being in need of repair, they repeatedly ignore and didn’t fix it. He then gets his arm permanently injured and they can’t find a job doing something with one arm. They should be paying him out a 7 figure sum yearly for causing his injury through neglect. I hope he is able to successfully sue them for an unreasonable amount of of money.
This is exactly something that the government and government regulation should be protecting against and providing remedies for
After all, the entire point of a government is organized citizenry aligning on how they want society to operate.
This is standard corporate tomfuckery.
You fire them first (probably illegally) wait for them to lawyer up and come after you in court, enter into negotiations to settle now that the employee is under financial pressure to accept.
An employee who suffers a serious injury on the job who might have ongoing life long medical expenses can be horrifically expensive to a company often wildly exceeding a negotiated settlement.
Its morally fucked but the company would rather cut the man a very large cheque and sever all ties than have the long term liability hanging over their heads. Sacking him first just puts a timer on it that the company can afford to wait out when the employee cant.
Yes, its still wrong.
“Undue hardship” is such a vague reason. How would they even prove that? And you’d think the workers would be better protected in Canada. I hope the guy can sue them for millions of dollars.
For Americans reading this story from Canada:
This happens every day in America and doesn’t require a “rare legal principal” because it’s perfectly normal here.
Also it’s in Alberta, that stronghold of maple maga and perhaps our worst labour laws. I hope there’s some serious punitive pain on this.
I love the term terminated. Like did they fire him, or did they drag him out back and give him the ol’ yeller?
Alternatively, an anthropomorphic robot from the future traveled back in time to drag them out back and ol’ yeller them so the machine uprising can occur
In the High Fructose Corn Syrup world its called Dieobeating
They just threw him into the machine. If he can’t produce, they’d just turn him into the product.
Maybe he was cut or slashed. He could have been made redundant!
(I was just listening to a hilarious story by Stuart Mclean that had these jokes. It’s in the 2nd half of this podcast.
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