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In fairness such things are fairly common and I doubt the PMO was involved. More likely someone lower down was covering themselves and put the blame on Tipple. Still, a bad scene:
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
By Kathryn May, The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — The Harper government has been ordered to pay nearly $1.4 million in damages and psychological injury for its "sham" dismissal of a high-powered executive recruited to revamp its real estate operations.
In a sweeping ruling, the Public Service Labour Relations Board concluded last week that former Public Works adviser Douglas Tipple's layoff in 2006 was nothing more than a "disguised" termination.
Adjudicator Dan Quigley concluded the government used Tipple's termination as a "scapegoat" to cover its own mistakes and silence the gathering political storm over an ill-fated trip to Britain at the centre of a minor diplomatic flap.
The board has rarely made such awards, but Quigley said that Tipple's "sham and camouflage" dismissal protected the government's interests at his expense and awarded him damages and interest for lost reputation, wages, bonuses, benefits and psychological injury totalling $1.4 million.
6 comments:
Hysterical, typical Harperite bullshit, firing guys who wanted to cut government spending.
This story should be first page in every paper across the land.
I disagree Morton; this has ALL the earmarks of Stephen Harper.
On what grounds would you say Harper's office was not involved?
Based on what we've seen in the past, this is exactly the sort of thing that would be managed directly from the PMO.
Maybe you're all right -- he did seem to be a pretty high level executive
What is the name of this case? I would like to read it.
Yes, what is the case name?
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