Patricia Gendron worked for Koppert Canada Ltd. as a technical consultant with clients running cannabis growing operations.
B.C.’s Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed a complaint from a woman who said she was constructively dismissed from her job after being in a cannabis farm gave her a "contact high" and symptoms stemming from a disability.
The company responded that, due to that disclosure and some confusing information from Gendron’s doctor, it was temporarily removing Gendron’s driving duties and her company car, according to the Oct. 27 decision from tribunal member Devyn Cousineau. The company proposed several options Gendron did not like. She proposed a medical leave Aug. 9, 2009 and six days later was put on an unpaid administrative leave.
Cullum said the company wasn’t prepared to modify her work “in the absence of clear and cogent medical information to support this modification.”
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