migrant worker it fired in retaliation for speaking out about working conditions.The Ontario Labour Review Board says Scotlynn Sweetpac Growers Inc.
fired Gabriel Flores in June and immediately sent him back to Mexico after he privately and publicly expressed concerns over working and living conditions.
Outbreak declared at farm in Norfolk County: public health Matthew R. Wilson, alternate chair of the OLRB, says in his decision that Flores confronted his supervisor about living in close quarters in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]He notes that the confrontation came after Flores was diagnosed with the virus, and his roommate and coworker died of it.