Garnett Genuis at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On February 22nd, 2018. See this statement in context.

February 22nd, 2018 / 1:10 p.m.

Conservative

Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB

Thank you.

I want to follow up on some of the discussion about Canada Post and some of the previous testimony on that. To me, this gets to the heart of the question of what constitutes the definition of “harassment”.

We heard a gentleman speak previously about how the response by Canada Post to...I think the phrase he used was “innocent absenteeism”, or something like that. He said that in his view, their response constituted harassment.

I'm curious to know how Canada Post responds to innocent absenteeism. As an employer with a parliamentary office here, I think you need to have some kind of response to absenteeism, innocent or otherwise. Does it create problems for an employer when that is qualified in some quarters as a form of harassment, depending on what the response is?

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