Co-worker’s statement was only evidence employee inflicted pain on shelter resident, but there was no reason not to believe it: Arbitrator
An Ontario homeless shelter worker’s firing was not due to an unfortunate twist of fate, but rather a twist of a finger. A co-worker’s account of the worker using unnecessary force — the aforementioned finger twist — on an unruly resident was sufficient to provide just cause for dismissal, regardless of whether a visible injury on the resident’s hand was caused by the event or a later incident, an Ontario arbitrator has found.
