{"id":844,"date":"2019-10-31T15:01:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T23:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=844"},"modified":"2019-10-31T15:02:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T23:02:35","slug":"contempt-of-wcb-asbestos-abatement-orders-six-weeks-of-house-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Contempt of WCB Asbestos Abatement Orders: Six Weeks of House Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bccourts.ca\/jdb-txt\/sc\/19\/18\/2019BCSC1862.htm\">2019 BCSC 1862 Workers\u2019 Compensation Board of British Columbia v. Skylite Building Maintenance Ltd.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The employer was found to be in contempt of WCB asbestos abatement orders. The conduct was, let&#8217;s say, egregious.<br \/>\nJail time for civil contempt is not the norm but in serious enough cases it&#8217;s a tool for there for the  Court to use.<\/p>\n<p>In this case the Court determined that six weeks of house arrest was an appropriate penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: 2019 BCSC 1862 Workers\u2019 Compensation Board of British Columbia v. Skylite Building Maintenance Ltd. The employer was found to be in contempt of WCB asbestos abatement orders. The conduct was, let&#8217;s say, egregious. Jail time for civil contempt is not the norm but in serious enough cases it&#8217;s a tool for there for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law","category-labour-law","category-litigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}