A British Columbia arbitrator has upheld the dismissal of a male worker for knowingly submitting a false sexual harassment complaint against a female colleague.
“The [worker] presented factual scenarios that at first blush seemed to be implausible, but his explanations didn’t add an element of plausibility or objective evidence to substantiate them,” says Michael Penner, a labour and employment lawyer at Kent Employment Law in Victoria.
The worker was a full-time faculty member in the Department of Applied Communications and Public Relations at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, BC, since 2013.
