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Tribunal declines to defer human rights application pending WSIB appeal regarding initial entitlement.
The applicant filed a human rights application alleging his employment was terminated because he intended to claim WSIB benefits for a workplace injury.
The respondent employer requested that the Tribunal defer the application pending the outcome of the applicant's WSIB appeal regarding initial entitlement.
The Tribunal declined to defer the application, finding that the WSIB proceeding focused on causation of the injury rather than whether the termination was discriminatory, and noting that the WSIB appeal was not far advanced.
