An Air Canada worker who was dismissed for alleged time theft has been reinstated after an arbitrator found the company failed to accommodate his hearing impairment during the disciplinary process.
“When you have an issue of disability which is raised or you are deemed to have known about, you’re going to have to show additional efforts to accommodate that disability, particularly during any disciplinary process,” says Lorenzo Lisi, leader of the Workplace Law Group at Aird and Berlis in Toronto.
The worker was an aircraft electrician for Air Canada since 2009, and in Montreal since 2021. He worked the night shift, from 8:45 p.m. to 7:55 a.m.
