The worker's confrontational attitude precludes a ruling in favour of psychological injury

A court clerk alleges that she sustained a psychological injury in the form of an adjustment disorder with depressed mood, as a result of harassment on the part of her director general, who had suspended her for unjustified absence. Evidence revealed that the employee had difficulty accepting the new director’s implementation of a results-based management culture and, more specifically, the latter’s decision to cancel a cashier’s position in the department. The C.L.P. ruled that there was no occupational injury, since the employee had herself created a confrontational climate with the director general, openly challenging his decision to abolish the cashier’s position. She can hardly claim therefore that the suspension imposed on her as a result of her behaviour was unexpected and sudden. V. A. v. N. G. , 2008 QCCLP 787 (C.L.P.) Me Jean-Pierre Arsenault (May, # 11)