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MLA regrets firing woman who made sex harassment complaint

Posted in Canada Provinces

Published on December 16, 2017 with No Comments

Alberta’s Opposition house leader has said that he regrets once firing a female employee because she complained about sexual harassment. However, Jason Nixon said that he and his United Conservative Party caucus are committed to ending harassment and abuse in the workplace. Nixon is the leader of the United Conservatives in the house. Last week, Nixon spoke out in the legislature against a bill that will toughen sanctions on workplace harassment, saying the industry has shown it can police itself. But new reports show that Nixon, while in private business a decade ago, was fined by a B.C. human rights panel after he fired a female employee at the behest of a contractor when she complained of sexual harassment. Premier Rachel Notley said that it was dishonest of Nixon to criticize proposed new workplace harassment rules without mentioning that he had been fined for firing a woman who had spoken out.

Number of sick days by Saskatchewan civil servants head north

The provincial auditor for Saskatchewan Judy Ferguson has released her latest report which examined operations at 170 government ministries, Crowns and health authorities.The report shows that Saskatchewan has the second highest number of sick days per year among federal, provincial and municipal government employees across the country. The average civil servant misses 10.6 days of work per year. It’s worse in the health care system where the average worker misses 14 days of work. The auditor also followed up on recommendations made in previous years. Ferguson has high praise for Sask. Polytech which implemented all 13 recommendations from last year.

 

 

 

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