| Case | Tribunal
Year |
Facts Summary | Compensatory and Lost Income Awards |
| General Considerations | The rough maximum of Alberta awards was considered $10,000 until the award of $25,000 upheld in 2013 by the Alberta Court of Appeal Walsh v Mobil Oil. There was also a reprisal sum awarded in this case of $10,000. | ||
| Hansen v Big Dog Express | AHRC
2002 |
Pregnancy | $5,000 |
| Hamm v WWDI Wireless
|
AHRC
Aug 2009 |
The applicant was subjected to abusive behaviour of shoulder rubbing, being blown a kiss and retaliatory conduct of a dismissal letter and false accusations contained within it | $4,500 |
| Noel v 375850 Alberta Ltd.
|
AHRC
Sept 2010 |
The complainant, living at a job site in northwestern Alberta, exited the shower and noticed a male camp maintenance worker watching her. A few days later, the same man was standing beside her bed when she awoke. | $5,000 |
| Walsh v Mobil Oil | Alta CA
2013 |
gender and reprisal | $10,000 and $25,000; lost income due to adverse treatment and reprisal of $472,666 and pension loss of $139,154 and counseling bills of $10,000; Six years of lost earnings was not fully compensated. |
| City of Calgary | Arb award
2013 |
Sexual harassment | $125,000 but the arbitrator was empowered to consider human rights, tort and arbitral. |
| Clark v Bow Valley College | AHRC
2014 |
Issue of the availability of child care following pregnancy leave | $15,000 and lost income award of 4 months (mitigation issues) |
| SMS v CEP Union | Arbitrator award upheld on review
2015 |
Child care issues and rotational shift work | Ordered to allow regular day shifts |
| Sunshine Village Corporation v Boehnisch | Alberta
KB |
Perceived disability of ski patroller; no accommodation | $25,000 plus lost income of $54,472 |
| Yaschuk v Emerson | AHRC
May 2022 |
verbal sexual harassment which had a profound impact on the complainant | $50,000 |
| McCharles v Jaco Line | AHRC
October 2022 |
Respondent touched the complainant’s breasts; lack of proper
investigation; mental condition resulted in part due to this conduct. |
$50,000 |
| Smith v Popowich | AHRC
Nov 2022 |
explicit sexual remarks, some touching over three plus years | $35,000
The Director had asked for $25,000 |
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