Ontario: Toronto teacher's bad judgment interacting with students not cause for dismissal

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    Teachers bad judgment interacting with students not cause for dismissal

    A teacher’s poor professional judgment relating to his interactions with a few students was not just cause for termination when there was no evidence of any policy or code of conduct breaches, an arbitrator has ruled. “A lapse in judgment is less serious [than some forms of misconduct], and then you're looking at, is there something that the employer could do to fix that, short of termination?” says Rishi Bandhu, a labour and employment lawyer at Bandhu Professional Law Corporation in Oakville, Ont. “And that's where the possibility of training or additional education comes in.” The worker was a secondary ...


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