HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO
B E T W E E N:
Frank Michaud
Applicant
-and-
Hôpital Montfort, Canadian Union of Public Employees and its Local 4721, and ARAMARK Canada Ltd.
Respondents
Decision
Adjudicator: Geneviève Debané
Indexed as: Michaud v. Hôpital Montfort
APPEARANCES
Frank Michaud, Applicant ) No one appearing
Hôpital Montfort, ) André Champagne, Counsel Respondent )
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Canadian Union of Public Employees ) Sue Lott, Counsel
and its Local 4721, Respondents )
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ARAMARK Canada Ltd., Respondent ) George MacMaster, Director of Human ) Resources
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1This is an Application under s. 34 of the Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, as amended, (“the Code”).
2On December 13, 2011, a Notice of Summary Hearing was sent to the parties advising that the summary hearing would commence at 9:30 a.m. on March 9, 2012. The Notice of Summary Hearing also advised the parties how to connect to the teleconference.
3The summary hearing was scheduled pursuant to the Case Assessment Direction dated November 8, 2011 (“CAD”). In this CAD the Tribunal directed that the applicant should proceed to make submissions first to explain why the Application should not be dismissed as having no reasonable prospect of success.
4On March 9, 2012 the applicant did not call in nor participate in the summary hearing. As is customary, the Tribunal waited until 10:00 a.m. At 10:00 a.m. the applicant was still not present.
5I was satisfied at the hearing that the applicant had received notice of the summary hearing. In the absence of the applicant or any explanation for his failure to attend the hearing, I dismissed the Application as abandoned.
ORDER
6The Application is dismissed.
Dated in Toronto this 9th day of March, 2012.
”signed by”________________
Geneviève Debané
Vice-chair