B.C. tribunal looks at 10 years of complaints over supervisor's comments
A supervisor's rude remarks over a decade did not add up to bullying, a B.C. tribunal has ruled, turning down a long-serving employee’s claim for a work-related mental disorder. Of the 30 incidents she described, only one passed the legal test, and it was not what caused her condition.
In a decision dated July 20, 2026, vice-chair Jyoti Dasanjh of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal dismissed the worker's appeal. The ruling confirms a Sept. 11, 2025 Review Division decision that upheld WorkSafeBC's denial of her claim.
The worker had been a steward with the employer, a vessel operator, since 2004. She applied for compensation on Oct. 3, 2022, pointing to bullying, harassment and workplace stress from March 2011 to 2021. The employer took part in the appeal and asked that the earlier ruling stand.
The worker told WorkSafeBC that her supervisor was the person at the centre of her claim. She said that in 2012, he called her the most expensive employee and told her each of her compensation claims cost $35,000. She also said that in 2017, he made a remark that she took as a threat to her job and brought up her age while they talked about her workload.
According to her account, he made her 2020 return to work harder, brushed off her safety concerns and placed a letter in her file in spring 2021 saying she had been unsafe. She stopped working in May 2020 and...
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