He said it was age bias, but his own emails after being fired suggested otherwise
An employee's own emails, fired off hours after his termination, made no mention of age discrimination. Months later, his account changed, and a human rights tribunal wasn't persuaded.
In a decision released Aug. 20, 2026, Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario member Rosamaria Longo dismissed an age discrimination complaint filed by a former infection prevention and control practitioner against Mackenzie Health Richmond Hill Hospital. Longo found that documented performance problems, not age, were behind the hospital's decision to end the employee's contract during his probationary period.
Records entered at the hearing pointed to problems within weeks of a new manager taking over the department. The hospital maintained that the employee did not complete required hand hygiene audits, missed a chickenpox follow-up for three days, and failed to document a patient's ongoing precautions for a separate infection.
A nurse once asked the employee to help remove a visibly ill family member from a unit; he referred the matter to security instead. Longo pointed to further lapses, including missed deadlines for outbreak line lists, a dispute over a colleague's classification of a C. difficile case that later proved correct, and the disclosure of a patient's health information to a building superintendent with no clinical role.
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