Hi Everyone,
This week I was talking to my buddy out here in BC about a reserve soldier who works for the BC Govt that is getting screwed around by his full time employer. This soldier has been on military leave for almost a year and is hoping to deploy to Afghanistan. His employer was matching and topping up his pay as per their Collective Agreement, but then all of a sudden they decided that they were not going to continue to support him and now they are “pressuring” him to quit.
I use to work in the for the BC Government in the Liquor Distribution Branch and I looked into the BCGEU Collective Agreement for the clause that would apply. There is 3 that apply under Art. 20.14. I know my experience with being a reservist and the BC Govt...it sucked! I quit my job because of the “support” and stress I received from this employer. If this person s going through what I had to put up with I plan to write to my Member of Parliament and my MLA about this treatment....(if its true) This is not acceptable at all.
Has anyone on here from BC heard of this happening to anyone they know? What about other employers? I thought that the new laws were suppose to help protect reservists from this sort of thing happening.
