{"id":76,"date":"2006-01-31T23:49:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T07:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=76"},"modified":"2006-01-31T23:52:05","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T07:52:05","slug":"substance-abuse-in-a-safety-sensitive-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Substance Abuse in a Safety Sensitive Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Employees with substance abuse issues are a nightmare for employers charged with a workforce operating in a safety sensitve workplace. Employers must accommodate such employees to the point of undue hardship. Having said that what is undue hardship in a safety sensitive environment?<\/p>\n

Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, Local 707 v. Suncor Energy Inc.<\/em><\/a>, [2005] A.J. No. 871, is a recent case dealing with accommodation issues in a safety sensitive environment where a worker was terminated for substance abuse related work performance issues.<\/p>\n

The case provides a good framework for dealing with this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Employees with substance abuse issues are a nightmare for employers charged with a workforce operating in a safety sensitve workplace. Employers must accommodate such employees to the point of undue hardship. Having said that what is undue hardship in a safety sensitive environment? Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, Local 707 v. Suncor Energy Inc., [2005] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law","category-human-rights-law","category-labour-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}