Timing is not everything – Alberta Human Rights Tribunal finds that termination during medical leave did not amount to discrimination

Timing is not everything – Alberta Human Rights Tribunal finds that termination during medical leave did not amount to discrimination

By Jacob Zelman An employer has succeeded before Alberta’s Human Rights Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) in a case arising from the termination of an employee shortly after he requested medical leave, despite the fact that the employer was found to have breached employment standards legislation in connection with the same dismissal. In Hanna v Chevron Canada Limited o/a Chevron Canada Resources, 2026 AHRC 3, the Tribunal upheld the Director of the Albe…