Workplace Safety Settlement Sums to $1.46 Million

Safety Procedures get a newer dimension with a heavy compensation to a former employee of WalMart Canada Corp. Case sounds stinky, but addresses the major workplace safety issue, i.e. bullying & harassment. Instance from Windsor (Ontario) in which Meredith Boucher filed a petition against Jason Pinnock, the manager in WalMart Canada Corp., in September, 2012 took nearly three-four months to settle. Her allegations were the same that we listen every day but simply lodge into the air for no purpose; maybe we don’t know how to go about such workplace safety issues. Let us study her allegations:

• She suffered mental abuse from her former manager Jason Pinnock.
• She was forced to resign from her position in November, 2009.
• She used to be degraded in front of her team members whom she used to supervise.
• Pinnock used to speak disrespectfully with her.
• Sexual harassment along with mental abuse.
• Physical attack as the manager punched her arm for many times.

Such allegations blemish the reputation of the great WalMart Canada Corp. in lieu of poor safety procedures at workplace. It is agreed that mental hazard standards were not the components of workplace safety manuals then, but the physical harm to the employee is disgusting. We suppress such mental abuse to make both ends meet. I think raising voice for harder safety procedures against such devils would pay you much better. The company is liable to pay $1.46 million to Meredith Boucher. Government finds penalty as an easier way to enforce the law. Employers need not act like wild animals that need to be tamed with the stick of heavy fines against such mental abuse. C’mon, be professional in your terms with employees. Be humane, that’s it! Follow this simple workplace safety philosophy – “A safer you is a safer me”.