Supreme Court upholds dismissal of employee addicted to cocaine

Top court deems human rights tribunal`s finding that worker`s addiction wasn`t a factor in dismissal reasonable

In perhaps the most important human rights decision to date dealing with drugs in the workplace, the Supreme Court of Canada recently ruled that an employer may terminate a worker for just cause when he violated a fitness for duty policy by attending work under the influence of drugs. The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the ruling of the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal that the employer did not unlawfully discriminate when a worker was terminated.

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