Failure to investigate work refusal unreasonable but understandable

Employer preoccupied with prison guards balking at showing up for work

An Ontario correctional officer’s work refusal due to health concerns on a day when the employer was short-staffed and occupied with many refusals should have been investigated promptly, but the employer’s failure to do so was understandable, an arbitrator has ruled.

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