Worker’s failure to support 14-month medical leave constitutes job abandonment

'Those additional chances that the employee gets are so fundamental in adjudicators’ eyes, to see that the employer acted fairly and reasonably'

Worker’s failure to support 14-month medical leave constitutes job abandonment

The Ontario Grievance Settlement Board has upheld the firing of a provincial government worker for job abandonment following a lengthy medical absence without sufficient medical information.

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