“In fact, many staff meetings started with a supervisor asking if anyone required a [Hurt Feelings Report],” the claim states.
Moreover, company management would allegedly leave writing on a break room whiteboard warning of mass layoffs, wage cuts and the elimination of breaks and sick days to intimidate staff. As well, MacMillan claims he and other employees in favour of unionizing were “openly mocked in the workplace.”
In August 2017, MacMillan claims he went on medical leave due to stress and anxiety induced by workplace harassment, and the defendant’s human resources manager allegedly accused him of lying while “demanding that he resupply the particulars of his harassment complaints.”
By November, he was medically cleared to return to work, but Copper Mountain’s human resources manager allegedly refused to allow him to return, which “clearly demonstrated that the defendant no longer intended to be bound by its contract of employment with the plaintiff.”
MacMillan seeks unspecified damages for breach of contract and wrongful dismissal. The allegations have not been tested or proven in court, and Copper Mountain had not responded to the claim by press time.
