{"id":3,"date":"2005-09-13T08:57:37","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T15:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=3"},"modified":"2017-07-26T00:18:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T08:18:51","slug":"dismissal-substance-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"Dismissal: Substance Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The issue of dismissal for employment related substance abuse is a continuing and evolving workplace theme. In a recent B.C. arbitration, <em>International Forest Products Ltd. (Hammond Cedar Division) v. United Steelworkers of America Local 1-3567 (Sall Grievance)<\/em>, [2005] B.C.C.A.A.A. No. 184, the employer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision to dismiss the worker for alcohol abuse and breach of return to work conditions was upheld. The case provides a useful summary of the state of B.C. arbitral law on substance abuse by workers in safety sensitive positions and the extent of an employer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s duty to accommodate the worker. A more detailed discussion on the case will follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issue of dismissal for employment related substance abuse is a continuing and evolving workplace theme. In a recent B.C. arbitration, International Forest Products Ltd. (Hammond Cedar Division) v. United Steelworkers of America Local 1-3567 (Sall Grievance), [2005] B.C.C.A.A.A. No. 184, the employer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision to dismiss the worker for alcohol abuse and breach of return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}