[Nmefman] ANNOUNCEMENT: FAILURE TO ACCOMMODATE AWARD

FAILURE TO ACCOMMODATE LEADS TO HUMAN RIGHTS AWARE PUBLIC SERVICE LABOUR RELATIONS BOARD BETWEEN: NATHALIE CYR, Grievor AND: TREASURY BOARD (DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES & SKILLS DEVELOPMENT, Employer Project Manager, Nathalie Cyr, works in the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development, Service Canada. In February 2007 Ms Cyr filed a grievance alleging her employer had harassed and discriminated against her and failed in its duty to put in place and maintain accommodations to address her physical limitations due to environmental hypersensitivity she acquired. Ms Cyr was relatively healthy until she was transferred to her new workplace location in 2004. One month after working there, she started to feel tired, had headaches and sinus pain one hour after she would arrive at work but the symptoms would disappear when she left. She requested and was permitted to work from home as a teleworker and only return to her workplace a few times a week. Eventually, she was requested to return to full-time employment at her workplace which led her to filing a grievance in 2007. On March 22, 2011 her grievance was allowed and the employer was ordered to pay Ms Cyr, within 60 days: · $8,000 for pain and suffering she experienced; · $10,000 as a special award pursuant to subsection (53(3) of the Canadian Human Rights Act; and · $300 for the medical certicate. File No. 566-02-2173 Citation: 2011 PSLrB 35 For further details, please view http://pslrb-crtfp.gc.ca/decisions/fulltext/2011-35_e.asp Lydia Lydia E. Neilson, M.S.M. , Founder Chief Executive Officer NATIONAL ME/FM ACTION NETWORK 512 - 33 Banner Road Nepean, ON K2H 8V7 Canada Tel. 613.829.6667 Fax 613.829.8518 Email: mefmaction(a)ncf.ca www.mefmaction.com Member of the IACFS/ME NATIONAL ME/FM ACTION NETWORK - HOST OF THE IACFS/ME INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & CLINICAL CONFERENCE - OTTAWA, CANADA SEPTEMBER 22 - 25, 2011 For details on agendas and registration, please visit: www.iacfsme.org