Employee did not report to work. Was the dismissal unjust?
A British Columbia labour arbitrator decided that after an employee did not report to work, an employer had just and reasonable cause to discipline the employee, and dismissal was not an excessive response in the circumstance.
More probable than not that pregnancy was known and termination was due to pregnancy
In a recent case, the employee alleged that, contrary to the Human Rights Code, the employer terminated her employment after she worked only three shifts because she was pregnant.
Labour force survey, October 2014
Employment rose for the second consecutive month, up 43,000 in October. This pushed the unemployment rate down 0.3 percentage points to 6.5 percent, the lowest rate since November 2008. (In PDF)