“Trust is essential in an employment relationship, regardless of the industry, and the employer has to have trust in the employee to act within the scope of their job and their authority. Once that trust is gone, that opens the door for termination.”
So says Trevor Thomas, a labour and employment lawyer at Ascent Employment Law in Vancouver, after an arbitrator upheld the firing of a hotel server for the theft of $14.
The worker was a server in a seasonal cocktail lounge at the Rosewood Hotel in Vancouver. She was hired in November 2021.
