“When you’re dealing with employment issues, there are several avenues for an employee to get redress, and employers are seeing a multiplicity of claims that are coming out of a single employment issue.”
So says Chris Pelkey, an employment and labour lawyer at McInnes Cooper in Fredericton, after a New Brunswick worker successfully sought an order for reinstatement under the province’s Employment Standards Act (ESA) – for her employer’s breach of a workers’ compensation rule.