A federal labour board has upheld the 2015 firing of a Canada Revenue Agency employee who worked next to the Calgary airport and wrote frequent Twitter and Facebook posts that “appeared to glorify the Boston Marathon terror bombing, celebrate the deaths of NATO military personnel, and cheer the downing of aircraft.”
Following the investigation, the CRA revoked A.B.’s “reliability status,” a basic security clearance. There is no mention of how A.B. had been able to get a low-level security clearance in the first place, which requires a requires a 5-year background check.
As his job required that security clearance, the loss of it caused him to be terminated. A.B. filed five grievances to the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board over this, arguing he was unfairly fired and had experienced racial and religious discrimination.
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