Employee Alleged Harassment Case - Chad Kelly

[Will]

This article HERE addresses some of the questions I had from Naylor's article, specifically that "The Argonauts claim throughout the 2023 season, head strength and conditioning coach Usama Mujtaba advised the plaintiff about the need to improve and develop her skills. Mujtaba allegedly talked to management about the need for a new position with sports science knowledge, injury reduction, fatigue management, and data collection “to create interventions for strength and conditioning.”"

[primetime31]

This article HERE addresses some of the questions I had from Naylor's article, specifically that "The Argonauts claim throughout the 2023 season, head strength and conditioning coach Usama Mujtaba advised the plaintiff about the need to improve and develop her skills. Mujtaba allegedly talked to management about the need for a new position with sports science knowledge, injury reduction, fatigue management, and data collection “to create interventions for strength and conditioning.”"

This indicates to me that they were looking to possibly eliminate the plaintiff's position and replace it with a new one with new qualifications. This would explain why the head conditioning coach would advise the plaintiff to upgrade her skills to qualify for the new position. If the plaintiff were a full-time employee and not a contracted one then her dismissal would be likely seen as a constructive dismissal, which means that she would have been entitled to a severance package, However, her severance would likely be less as a contracted employee. Perhaps this could be a reason behind her lawsuit on harassment grounds instead of a purely labour law situation.

As they always say in these cases, let the process play itself out, rather than jumping to conclusions. My curiosity is in what the league's investigation uncovers.

[OV Argo]

This indicates to me that they were looking to possibly eliminate the plaintiff's position and replace it with a new one with new qualifications. This would explain why the head conditioning coach would advise the plaintiff to upgrade her skills to qualify for the new position. If the plaintiff were a full-time employee and not a contracted one then her dismissal would be likely seen as a constructive dismissal, which means that she would have been entitled to a severance package, However, her severance would likely be less as a contracted employee. Perhaps this could be a reason behind her lawsuit on harassment grounds instead of a purely labour law situation.



As they always say in these cases, let the process play itself out, rather than jumping to conclusions. My curiosity is in what the league's investigation uncovers.

My curiosity would be on any corroborating testimony from anyone with the Argos to support the plaintiff's claims and show Kelly and the Argos are lying.