Sacked principal’s lawsuit a lesson for HR – Hrmonline
August 21, 2017
You may recall a recent article by Angela Wiggins regarding the remedy of reinstatement for federal employees under the unjust dismissal provision of the Canada Labour Code. You may also recall that the decision in question there was considered an extension of the Supreme Court of Canada’s reasoning in Wilson v. Atomic Energy, originally discussed here.
We can now add the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal in Bird v. White Bear First Nation to this unfortunate canon regarding the Unjust Dismissal provision(s) of the Code.
In December, 2014, Murray Bird, the principal of White Bear First Nation’s on-reserve school was fired by the White Bear First Nation Education Board for alleged misconduct on the following grounds:
