Mental stress damages don’t require ‘separate actionable wrong’: Court

Federal court overturns labour board decision that employee’s suspension was excessive but there needed to be a separate wrong to warrant aggravated damages

A federal employee may be entitled to mental distress damages on top of a suspension revocation and compensation for lost pay after the employer failed to deal properly with a problem co-worker, the Federal Court has ruled.

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