Drunk driver gets hospital job back after missing work because of jail term
FREDERICTON — A New Brunswick hospital has been ordered to re-hire a lab employee who was fired after he didn’t go to work for more than a month.
That’s because the employee, Paul Lynch, was in jail for his seventh drunk-driving-related conviction.
Labour adjudicator John McEvoy said the 2015 firing was improper — Lynch did not know he was going to be jailed, and was unable to contact his bosses to tell them why he stopped going to work.
Further, said McEvoy, Lynch was fired by registered mail sent to his home, even though the hospital was aware of rumours Lynch had been jailed.