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Unjust employee treatment

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.jcrown
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Last season, a certain unnamed mountain, say sunshine village, fired several ski patrollers for kicking the owners son out of an avalanche area. This season, when hiring staff they refused to hire anyone who was friends with these patrollers on facebook. This in my opinion is completely ridiculous, any other hills have similar problems?
Jan 2 2012 10:52AM
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howlongcanausern
Posts: 4982 - Karma: 1,737
it's called at-will employment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
Jan 2 2012 10:55AM
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monkatizer
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Jan 2 2012 10:58AM
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ALaw
Posts: 2616 - Karma: 1,552
A company is allowed to hire who ever they want
Jan 2 2012 11:14AM
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LittleFoot
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There's probably more to the story that we don't know.
Jan 2 2012 11:26AM
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panojibber
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"at-will employment is a doctrine of american law"
Sunshine is in Alberta, Canada.

Freedom of Association which is constitutionally entrenched by our Charter of Rights and Freedoms dictates that we should be free to associate with whomever we want. Hence, sunshine's decision is a violation of the constitution.
Jan 2 2012 11:28AM
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howlongcanausern
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Canadian ski areas can still hire whomever they choose, whether or not they have at-will employment laws.
Jan 2 2012 11:32AM
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old-dirty11
Posts: 340 - Karma: 238
it mad the front page of.. i forget but its a big newspaper
Jan 2 2012 11:48AM
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cobra_commander
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work somewhere else.
Jan 2 2012 12:04PM
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Drail
Posts: 14012 - Karma: 10,011
One of the few times where I'm happy my hill is unionized. Job protection.

Well, honestly, I don't even work for the hill, but it would suck to loose your job because of who you're friends with on Facebook. I never really did like Sunshine.
Jan 2 2012 1:26PM
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Panda_with_Guns
Posts: 3040 - Karma: 1,620
sounds like a cry baby bitch
Jan 2 2012 3:36PM
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Monsieur_Patate
Posts: 1393 - Karma: 4,307
Sounds like the owner's son is the cry baby bitch here.
Jan 2 2012 3:40PM
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