Following a non-workplace related injury, a cashier at a coffee shop was cleared to return to work with modified hours and duties. When she called the franchise owner to check on the details of her return to work, she was fired over the telephone after telling him about her physical restrictions. The woman then phoned the head office and they arranged to have her reinstated to her position. A few weeks after she started back at the job, the franchise owner pulled her into the office saying he was tired of accommodating her disability and fired her again. As she was 44 hours short of the qualifying period she was also denied Employment Insurance benefits.
The Tribunal ordered:
- $15,000 financial compensation for the discrimination;
- $27,378 in lost wages from the date of her termination to the date she obtained new employment.
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