On the merits portion of this case, we successfully argued that the Employer had created a new job and underpaid the employees doing the work in that job. This decision addresses the remedy.
The employer wanted to deduct certain incentive payments from the calculation of the extra wages that they were owed on the theory that “if we had known we had to pay that much in wages, we never would have paid them all this incentive money, we would have paid them far less in our incentive program".
The arbitrator agreed with us that the Employer’s position was speculative and that they could not deduct these monies.
The result was a difference of over $400,000, with the final tally being $740,000.
This was the largest monetary award that the Union had ever achieved for its members. They describe this victory on their website at this link: https://usw1944.ca/articles/concierge-arbitration-win?fbclid=IwAR2BudEvCvhliPFqKulOE-6iEBEimXwBlWBAPGfar7Q1LCmvQqXCGQEoe4A