Employer suspicious of workplace injury pushes return to work too hard

Company developed return-to-work plan behind worker’s back despite medical assessments that worker was unfit to work

A British Columbia employer was too aggressive when it proposed a return-to-work plan for an injured employee and then fired the employee for not agreeing to it, an arbitrator for the Canadian Railway Office of Arbitration and Dispute Resolution has ruled.

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