A former Flin Flon health care aide who won her job back in a landmark human rights ruling has yet to be rehired.
Twyla Storey, communications director for the Northern Health Region (NHR), confirms Linda Horrocks “has not been returned to the workplace.”
Storey said it’s the NHR’s understanding that a hearing for its requested judicial review of the ruling has been set for February.
Last September, a Manitoba human rights adjudicator ruled that the NHR wrongly dismissed Horrocks over her alcoholism, considered a disability, in 2011 and 2012. She was awarded her job back along with full back pay and $10,000 in compensation.
Asked to confirm whether the NHR has also withheld the money pending the review, Storey said that with the matter before the courts, the NHR would make no further comment until the case concludes.
While there is no procedure to appeal the adjudicator’s decision, the NHR had the option of taking the matter to the Court of Queen’s Bench, where a judge can determine if the ruling relied on a flawed understanding of the law.
Horrocks has proclaimed her innocence.
