He wanted to 'escalate' the matter. The tribunal says that wasn't enough to count as a safety complaint
A worker who sent an email to HR saying he wanted to "escalate" concerns about a difficult co-worker, then lost his job less than two weeks later, has failed to convince a British Columbia tribunal that the firing was payback for raising a safety issue. The reason, in short: his email never said the word.
In a decision dated March 24, 2026, Vice Chair Larry Campbell of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal (WCAT) denied the worker's appeal and upheld a December 8, 2023, WorkSafeBC ruling that the employer had not engaged in prohibited action when it terminated him on July 6, 2022.
Part of the worker's job was providing correction and feedback to a co-worker, identified in the decision as C. He told the tribunal that tensions built through late 2021 and into 2022, and that on June 1, 2022, C shouted at him in an open office. On June 23, 2022, he sent an email to his supervisor, copying the director of finance and the senior HR specialist, saying he wanted to "escalate" the matter.
Asked why he did not specifically advise the employer that the issue was one of bullying and harassment, the worker said he simply did not use those words. He said he did not feel he needed to use specific words such as bullying and harassment and that it should have been inferred from the email. He said he felt he was following the respectful...
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